Whistleblower

The founders of the Financial Professionals Coalition contend that most industry groups back firms and big players. They plan to stand up for the little guy.

The work-from-home phenomenon has triggered a fresh frustration for U.S. corporations: Americans are blowing the whistle on their employers like never before.

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

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

The regulator’s move follows a Financial Planning investigation into whistleblowing by former JPMorgan financial advisor Johnny Burris.

The demands come following a Financial Planning investigation revealing how JPMorgan’s Chase Private Client group used false evidence to get rid of an advisor.

This is how the firm tried to make sure no one knew.

One tipster will get $37 million, the third-biggest ever for the agency's whistleblower program.

The bank pledges to handle customer complaints better and reexamine its lending practices.

Christopher Rollins worked for Goldman Sachs for 16 years and rose to be a managing director before the firm fired him in February 2017.

Confidential emails reveal a top Wells Fargo advisor’s despair after he cried fraud. He could stay at Wells if he was silent, but spoke up anyway — and became a whistleblower.

Collusion and corruption allegedly prevented Wells Fargo whistleblowers, and a former JPMorgan advisor, from obtaining justice.

“Our whistle-blower program is a critical component in our investor-protection toolbox,” SEC Chairman Jay Clayton says.

Wall Street whistleblowers just got another reason to take their gripes directly to the SEC.

The accusations shed light on the massive back-office systems maintained by regulators and the difficulty of keeping the sensitive information in them private.

The organization awarded millions to firm insiders that provided information in a 2016 case against BofA.

The beleaguered bank is reported to have been ordered by the Justice Department in late 2017 to conduct an independent investigation of the business.

Wells may have settled with former employee Claudia Ponce de Leon because it wanted to avoid the "massive exposure" of a jury trial, an expert says. It is unclear how the agreement will affect Wells’ other cases.

An hour after Jennifer Sharkey was awarded $1.13 million in damages, the judge said she'll likely order a new trial if the two sides don’t reach a settlement because the verdict is "substantially flawed."

Jurors in New York federal court awarded Jennifer Sharkey $563,000 in back pay and $563,000 for emotional damage.