SEC enforcement

“I want to give a huge thank you to my clients” for feeding local families, Keith Springer blogged the same day the SEC filed its complaint.

The fact that it’s impossible to track the amount of revenue sharing kickbacks demonstrates the problem, says the research firm’s lead policy wonk.

Clients overpaid more than $12 million because of operating flaws and coding failures in an automated device advisors relied on for executing mutual fund orders.

Sixty-six SEC whistleblowers were awarded $387 million for a “job well done,” according to the commission's whistleblower attorney Stephen Kohn.

The court is taking up a challenge to one of the agency’s most potent legal weapons.

The regulator was allegedly inquiring about whether incentives at an firm unit rewarded salespeople for pitching higher-cost products.

The regulator is doing more with less but also missing its own goals around how long an investigation takes to result in an enforcement case.

The regulator’s expanding number of share-class cases fill in the details it says have been missing from Form ADV disclosures about conflicts of interest.

Since this March, almost 100 firms have settled with the regulator for approximately $173 million. Other cases are still pending.

Although FINRA cannot investigate potential wrongdoing by these former employees, state regulators are expected to do so.