Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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Regulators allege First Horizon Advisors violated Reg BI when it continued recommending complex investments even though it was struggling to bring over customer information from a recent acquisition.
September 18 -
The SEC head said artificial intelligence is promising for innovation and greater access to financial markets, but there's a need to ensure diversity of algorithms and guard against fraud.
September 18 -
If successful, previously banned brokers might be free to "fleece your grandma" again, an expert warned.
September 17 -
The Internal Revenue Service issued final regulations on consistent basis reporting between an estate and a person acquiring property from a decedent.
September 17 -
A FINRA settlement accuses the firm of failing to supervise a broker who recommended frequent purchases and then resales of various investment products.
September 13 -
The proposed changes, including to brokers' "payment for order flow" practices, laregly come in response to frenzied trading in so-called meme stocks.
September 13 -
The "reverse churning" case highlights the regulatory gap investors can fall into when moving between brokerage and advisory relationships.
September 12 -
The first rule of staying on the right side of the SEC's updated marketing rule: Involve compliance early and often.
September 12 -
The U.S. Government Accountability Office conducted a nearly four-year study. Here are the key findings from its exhaustive report.
September 11 -
A lawyer suing Wells and other firms argues the recent rate changes do nothing to repair harm already suffered by his clients.
September 10 -
RIAs including Abacus Planning Group, Beta Wealth Group, Integrated Advisors Network were accused of violations ranging from making unsubstantiated statements to claiming membership in nonexistent organizations.
September 9 -
Lawyers allege the 92-year-old victim's daughter begged Schwab to freeze her mother's account, but to no avail.
September 9 -
Massachusetts regulators accused the wirehouse of not conducting proper oversight of stock sales made a First Republic executive shortly before the bank collapsed last year.
September 6 -
Citigroup finds 31% of the changes needed for the move to faster settlement cycles still have to be completed.
September 4 -
Tax professionals are calling for changes to the proposal, even though they welcome clarifications they have been waiting on for decades.
September 3 -
Lawyers note the kinds of grievances the firm allegedly withheld are what potential clients look at when choosing advisors.
September 3 -
Schwab vehemently denied allegations that it mishandled clients' uninvested cash, calling the putative class action just the latest in a series of "unsound, copycat lawsuits."
August 30 -
Fines levied by the Wall Street regulator have dwindled in recent years.
August 30 -
Wealth management firms are facing scrutiny from investors over their investing choices and missed signs of fraud, in our latest look at the legal issues in wealth management.
August 30 -
Industry groups see the new AML requirements as unnecessarily redundant and burdensome on small firms.
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