From cryptocurrency to Medicare, 2025 is likely to be a year of change. Here's what nine experts are forecasting.

The case stems from Raymond James' recruitment of the $2.8 billion Wise Advisor Group from Baird, which also landed a penalty for a broker protocol violation.

The rival firms will pay for a forensic consultant to preserve evidence of transferred confidential data while they await FINRA arbitration.

The deadline is fast approaching for brokerages to register home offices for employees performing supervisory functions.

A Dodd-Frank safeguard is playing out behind closed doors for the second consecutive time with the omissions of most details from the GAO's triennial report.

Critics of mandatory arbitration say it can go against investment advisors' fiduciary duty to always do what's best for clients.

President-elect Donald Trump will loom large over financial services next year. But new CEOs at Vanguard and LPL Financial, new heads of professional organizations and other key players will also drive change.

The wirehouse is accused of not doing enough to prevent employees of its Smith Barney unit from making unauthorized transfers.

The nominee for head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Atkins, will pursue a more deregulatory and crypto-friendly approach than Gary Gensler.

Paul Atkins has a long history of criticizing industry watchdogs for what he considers regulatory overreach and is expected to take a light hand with the crypto industry.

The long efforts to put in place the enforcement mechanisms to attack syndicated conservation easements appear to at last be finalized.

President-elect Donald Trump is bringing numerous changes to wealth management with his return to the White House, from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to Social Security.

Brokers from 15 firms have been suspended, fined and sometimes — but rarely — fired in a sweep that stretches back to 2022.

Former Western Asset Management co-Chief Investment Officer Ken Leech was charged with engaging in an alleged "cherry-picking" trading scheme.

Compliance experts think the costs of going along with a sweeping investigation are ignored by regulators touting the benefits of cooperation.

The Internal Revenue Service is extending the transition period for revising claims for the research and development tax credit through Jan. 10, 2026.

The bulk of the haul came from the bankrupt crypto company Terraform Labs. But Morgan Stanley, LPL Financial, Ameriprise and other big firms also came under scrutiny.

FINRA must let the SEC weigh in before it can cast out one of its members, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found.

The SEC Chair oversaw a sweeping rulemaking agenda that drew resistance from many advisory and brokerage industry representatives.

A government watchdog reports that Labor Department regulations haven't made much of an impact on the levels of disclosure and comprehension.