Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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The push to regulate non-traded REITs lurks behind new concerns about liquidity.
December 5 -
The former CEO of Sanctuary's predecessor firm, financial advisor Mark W. Damer, won a major arbitration award related to his 2019 termination.
December 1 -
Lincoln, Morgan Stanley, Western International must pay combined $1.7 million over supervision cases In two FINRA enforcement cases and an arbitration award, wealth management firms are resolving allegations that they breached their duties.
November 30 -
The megabank's traditional brokerage unit has already paid a FINRA arbitration award and five settlements totaling $47.4 million.
November 29 -
Revelations about the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX's inroads into the banking system raise important questions about how limited the crypto crash really is.
November 29 -
Royal Bank of Canada's planned acquisition of HSBC Holdings' Canadian unit would expand its lead in the country's heavily concentrated financial market, strengthening its dealings with companies and wealthy individuals, while potentially drawing scrutiny from regulators.
November 29 -
Goldman Sachs Group will pay $4 million to settle U.S. regulators' claims that its asset management unit didn't properly weigh environmental, social and governance factors in some of its investment products.
November 23 -
The new federal regulations will allow, but not require, 401(k) fiduciaries to take environmental, social and governance principles into account.
November 22 -
Moves by cryptocurrency exchanges to reassure markets about their stability are having little effect on jittery users, who keep pulling funds from the venues.
November 21 -
Regulators' amendment would prevent dealers who have been found liable from even trying to get records erased.
November 18 -
The founder of the JLL Income Property Trust non-traded REIT thinks real estate deserves a place on advisors' list of alternative investments.
November 17 -
Agency's critics say many companies still see their settlements as a cost of doing business.
November 15 -
CFP Board is seeking to preserve "adversarial principles" in proceedings before its disciplinary and ethics commission.
November 14 -
In hindsight, Sam Bankman-Fried's April interview with Bloomberg's "Odd Lots" podcast was a harbinger of his epic collapse last week. He described a "box" that has value only because other people put money in it, and, when confronted with the idea that he described a Ponzi scheme, admitted there was a "depressing amount of validity" to that.
November 14 -
Tax experts are hypothesizing what will happen in Congress during the lame-duck session and over the next two years.
November 11 -
CapWealth Advisors founder Tim Pagliara said a federal jury sided with the firm because its clients had, in fact, paid lower overall fees on their mutual funds.
November 10 -
The justices' decision in SEC v. Cochran could ultimately reduce the power of administrative law judges over advisors and broker-dealers.
November 8 -
The Treasury and State departments have quietly urged banking giants including JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup to keep doing business with certain strategic Russian firms, according to people familiar with the situation. Some lawmakers have questioned whether these arrangements are sanctions loopholes.
November 7 -
The regulator's demand in confidential talks to settle a series of investigations into mistreatment of customers, described by people with direct knowledge of the matter, reflects its escalating frustration with the bank, which has been punished multiple times by authorities over the past six years for a variety of abuses.
November 4 -
Though an oft-cited index shows that 16 non-traded REITs gained 71.1% over the past five years, regulators appear unimpressed.
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