Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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Firms' practice of offering low returns on clients' uninvested cash is becoming the latest hot legal target.
August 1 -
Decisions granting a stay during industry lawsuits challenging the regulation point to a high bar of judicial scrutiny.
July 31 -
Wells Fargo joins Morgan Stanley, Merrill and Ameriprise in facing questions over its handling of clients' uninvested cash.
July 31 -
FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, is tightening its scrutiny following the collapse of Credit Suisse last year.
July 30 -
The first phase of FINRA's pilot program for continuing remote branch inspections drew the most interest from firms with 500 representatives or more.
July 29 -
Opponents of the new regulation won a legal victory in a ruling that places it in a stay during their lawsuit challenging the legality of the changes to ERISA.
July 26 -
This year's election and a potential replacement doctrine with unclear boundaries could ultimately determine the fate of Labor's retirement advice rule.
July 24 -
The SEC has approved the first U.S. exchange-traded funds investing directly in ether, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency.
July 23 -
While she has promoted the Biden administration's policies, she has campaigned on ideas that are more far-reaching in scope than the president's plans.
July 22 -
Meanwhile, several top executives at the regulator saw their pay rise in 2023 as compared to the previous year.
July 19 -
Industry groups say RIAs are receiving SEC letters inquiring about compliance with the new T+1 settlement rule for stock and bond trades.
July 18 -
Former President Trump is disavowing the conservative blueprint, which advocates for radical shifts in regulations and taxes that would reverberate in the industry.
July 17 -
A broker argues the Supreme Court's recent decision in the Jarkesy case means he should get to defend himself against fraud allegations before a jury.
July 15 -
The decisions indicated that justices will use far stricter scrutiny of government regulations moving forward, and some cases dealt a direct impact right away.
July 10 -
The arbitration award comes amid the industry's aggressive push to make sure departing wealth managers pay back money owed on recruiting loans.
July 9 -
A federal judge agrees with plaintiffs that the Federal Trade Commission lacks authority to set rules on unfair competition.
July 5 -
FINRA's settlement with Merrill gives the wirehouse credit for "extraordinary cooperation" with its investigation.
July 3 -
The court made it tougher for the administration to defend regulations it issued in recent months to tackle climate change, forgive student debt, crack down on so-called junk fees and write tax regulations.
July 2 -
The Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued final regulations on reporting by brokers on dispositions of digital assets such as cryptocurrency for customers in certain sale or exchange transactions.
June 28 -
The broker-dealer self-regulator argues that the enforcement decline is a result of its success in driving bad actors from the industry.
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