Wirehouse advisors

"This is a window for these regional firms to really explode," says Rob Blevins, a recruiter in Dublin, Ohio.

The husband-and-wife team say their new employer reminded them of their first firm, Smith Barney.

The advisor allegedly tried to help keep a penny stock's price above $2 per share, amassing nearly 630,000 shares himself.

The regional firm's new hires joined from FSC Securities, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo.

The advisors joined existing practices within the bank's independent broker-dealer arm.

A different regulatory landscape is encouraging brokers to reconsider their options.

RBC has been on a recruiting tear, adding more advisors in the first half of 2017 than all of 2016.

The advisors join the regional BD’s offices in Chicago and Nashville, Tennessee.

The platform provider has added 12 firms to its roster so far this year.

The firm, which has faced racial discrimination allegations, is trying an alternative approach suggested by a professor at Harvard.