Stepped up data demands and scrutiny by industry regulators on asset managers have transformed technology procurement and implementation at firms into a complex process that requires close cooperation between chief technology and compliance officers, among other executives.

Hackers with Wall Street expertise have stolen merger-and-acquisition information from more than 80 companies for more than a year, according to security consultants who shared their findings with law enforcement.

The SEC charged the firm with violating federal securities laws by providing unregistered cross-border brokerage and investment advisory services to U.S. clients.

With new bank chartering at a standstill, the FDIC has issued new guidance on de novo capital requirements and other issues in part to "demystify the application process."

UBS sought damages for breach of employment contract; an ex-UBS advisor countered that he brought in $20 million in net new assets.

Senate Democrats hammered William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at a highly anticipated hearing on Friday, demonstrating the growing pressure the central bank is under to take harsher actions against banks and restrict examiners from defecting to institutions after leaving service.

Steven A. Cohen’s new firm will stop collecting employees’ best trading ideas for a central investment pool and rewarding them with a special bonus, a practice that the U.S. government said created wrong incentives at his former hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors LP.

The San Diego-based advisor allegedly participated in private securities transactions that resulted in two elderly investors losing more than $340,000.

There are no jurisdictional walls when it comes to the damaging effects of net asset value errors. This realization and the global collaboration taking place to address it are creating the new, global standard for "best practice" with or without the existence of domestic or foreign regulatory policy.

A FINRA arbitration panel ordered an ex-Merrill Lynch advisor to pay his former employer more than $400,000 in damages.

FINRA hands out 18-month suspension, $10,000 fine and $233,000 in 'disgorgement' for selling away and nondisclosure issues, documents say.

As the pace of cyberattacks increases, asset managers are taking a hard look at their cyber insurance coverage to make sure that it will cover them should they become a target.

As the pace of cyberattacks increases, asset managers are taking a hard look at their cyber insurance coverage to make sure that it will cover them should they become a target.

The two self-regulators are proposing rules that would require dealers as principals to disclose to customers a “reference price” of the same security traded that same day as well as the difference between that price and the customer’s price.

Point72 Asset Management said it took a 5.1% passive stake in RCS in a Nov. 14 regulatory filing.

Advisors need to face a hard truth: Independent RIAs have lost this round. Fortunately, there are other, better ways to set yourself apart.

Regulators say clearing firm noticed an “irregularity;” SEC says thefts occurred over a 10-year period.

FINRA arbitration panel sides with a former Commonwealth Financial Network client who claims he lost his retirement savings due to bad retirement planning advice.

Changes in the industry confront asset managers on several fronts. Michael Rawson, an analyst covering passive strategies on Morningstar's manager research team, shares his expectations on the outcomes these industry shifts will bring.

Federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch may soon replace Attorney General Eric Holder, leaving bankers wondering whether she will be tougher on institutions than her predecessor.