Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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The SEC has charged Thrivent Investment Management for failing to comply with Regulation Best Interest's care and compliance obligation in connection with recommendations to retail investors in 529 Savings Plans.
October 3 -
After helping to lead a crackdown on the cryptocurrency industry and Wall Street's use of off-channel communications, Gurbir Grewal is leaving the SEC.
October 3 -
The technology could change the way many financial advisors interact with their clients, but that evolution will come with important questions, an expert says.
October 2 -
Agencies including FINRA and the SEC are looking at new risks posed in common use cases of AI — meeting dictation services, chatbots and using data to hyper-personalize ads.
October 1 -
TD Bank must pay more than $20 million to resolve investigations over a former trader's alleged placement of "spoof" orders to manipulate the Treasuries market.
October 1 -
A pair of wealth managers stand accused of allocating trading gains to themselves and losses to their clients in a way that had "nearly zero" chance of happening at random.
September 30 -
At FINRA's advertising regulation conference in Washington, D.C., leaders said they are looking at how broker-dealers are using large language models and AI translation services.
September 26 -
The latest lawsuit accuses the firm of not only failing to look out for clients' best interests but also failing to secure "reasonable returns" on money held in retirement accounts.
September 25 -
Merrill and a partner firm were accused of running a complicated yield enhancement strategy, or CYES plan, of the type that has long been in regulators' crosshairs.
September 25 -
A pair of SEC commissioners say the treatment of the brokerage firm Qatalyst shows industry watchdogs expect nothing short of perfection with regulatory matters.
September 24