Advisors in the Midwest and on the West Coast noticed information from their accounts on Pastebin, a website notoriously used for posting hacked or leaked information.

Years after being barred from the industry by FINRA, a former LPL broker is heading to prison for embezzling more than $250,000 from mostly elderly clients.

Many firms manage the distribution of summary prospectuses and upkeep of the related websites in-house via a painstaking manual process. However, these firms may not be aware of how much this effort is costing them and whether they are truly complying with Rule 498 and delivering a positive investor experience.

The breach illustrates the danger posed when just one employee has unauthorized or unsecured access to sensitive information, as well as the ongoing threat to financial institutions from insider theft.

The firm was sanctioned for failing to review the incoming and outgoing email correspondence of its registered reps.

The former lead counsel in the board's defense of its case against two Florida planners has moved in-house as general counsel.

Failure to align business practices with a client's needs may invite scrutiny, the regulator warned.

New laws this year likely will have an impact on retirement savings as the government faces population aging and public pension concerns.

A fired Morgan Stanley financial advisor accused of stealing client data never intended to sell the information and "is extremely sorry for his conduct," his lawyer said.

The event reminds firms, advisors and clients of the ever-evolving threat of data breaches. Here's what advisors should do.

Morgan Stanley fired an employee it said stole data, including account numbers, for as many as 350,000 wealth management clients and posted some of the information online.

This year will bring more municipal advisor and secondary market transparency regulation, while a newly Republican-controlled Senate could lead Congress to scrutinize and possibly ease existing laws and rules.

Two changes will come into effect by July -- an alternative capstone course, and a broadened definition of experience requirements.

Morgan Stanley is in talks with the U.S. to resolve an investigation into the bank’s creation and sale of mortgage-backed bonds, the latest in a string of Wall Street cases tied to the 2008 financial crisis, a person familiar with the matter said.

The advisor was with Raymond James for five years without any customer complaints noted by FINRA.

Nicholas Schorsch has resigned from RCS Capital, New York REIT and 11 other non-traded real estate investment trusts and direct investment programs sponsored by AR Capital.

Nowhere is the need for sharing greater than in the area of cybersecurity. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, whose bank in August disclosed that hackers had accessed data on 83 million customers, wrote last spring to shareholders of "intelligence fusion" that the bank uses to share information about threats.

"He called for the male clients, I called for the females," says ex-assistant, who says she knew phone calls to liquidate client assets after a B-D change were wrong.

James C. Cox was working for Edward Jones when he allegedly bilked a "vulnerable developmentally impaired” female client.

F-Squared Investments agreed to pay $35 million over U.S. regulatory claims that it misled investors about the performance of a trading strategy used by exchange-traded funds.