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Registered Rep.
October 6, 2004
Leitch & Gaffen |
Raymond James Fights the SEC's Fraud Charges The SEC brought fraud charges against the Tampa-based firm, saying the firm had looked the other way when a former broker scammed investors of approximately $44.5 million between 1999 and 2000.   |
Registered Rep.
September 21, 2005
Susan Konig |
Rogue Broker's Management Culpable Raymond James Financial Services (RJFS) was ordered to pay a $6.9 million fine to the SEC for failing to supervise Dennis Herula, a former broker who is currently in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges of fraud. |
Registered Rep.
February 17, 2005
John Churchill |
From Brokerage House to the Big House Dennis Herula, the 59-year-old former Raymond James Financial Services broker who lavished himself with homes and other gifts using millions of dollars stolen from clients, was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison on Friday. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
Susan Konig |
Onus on OSJs and BOMs Regulatory agencies are now moving to hold higher-ups at brokerage firms personally liable when reps working for them are charged with illegal conduct. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Karen Donovan |
No More Slap on the Wrist Regulators are getting tough and creative on registered reps because they suspect that fines aren't a strong enough deterrent to stop illegal behavior. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Karen Donovan |
Under Siege Executives of broker/dealer firms are not exaggerating when they say it seems like regulators are locked into a competitive battle to collect the most pelts on Wall Street. |
Registered Rep.
October 23, 2007
David A. Geracioti |
If Allegations Prove True, File This Under: Stupid Broker The SEC has filed a complaint against a former LPL rep and branch manager, who, the SEC says, had been engaging in one of the oldest broker tricks in the book: stealing his clients money. |
CFO
April 1, 2005
Tim Reason |
The Limits of Mercy The cost of cooperating with the SEC is high. The cost of not cooperating is even higher. Faced with financial penalties, career-ending bans, and possible criminal prosecution, more individuals are choosing to fight the SEC. |
Registered Rep.
April 24, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Raymond James Takes a 2Q Hit -- But Gains Retail Advisors Raymond James Financial posted dismal overall earnings for the second quarter, but its private client group appears to be a bright spot. |
Registered Rep.
November 8, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Auction Rate Revenge For tens of thousands of investors who were trapped in the auction rate securities debacle that started in 2008, finances are getting back to normal. |
Registered Rep.
September 23, 2008 |
SEC Charges Miami Broker Gary Gross Gary Gross has been charged with fraud by the SEC for selling his elderly clients unsuitable investments. |
Registered Rep.
November 3, 2003
Will Leitch |
Fund Scandal Implicates Stockbrokers The mutual fund trading scandals headlines seemed to implicate mutual fund family executives and hedge funds -- everybody but individual retail brokers and brokerage management. But a new survey by the SEC charges brokers with abusive trading of mutual funds. |
Registered Rep.
December 16, 2005
Halah Touryalai |
Former Pru Broker Penalized for Abusive Trading Three years after the SEC charged five Boston-based Prudential Securities brokers for abusive mutual fund trading, one of the accused is being temporarily barred from association with any broker/dealer or investment advisor. |
Registered Rep.
January 2, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
Blotter: January 2013 FINRA slapped a Pennsylvania advisor with a complaint in December after he allegedly forged client signatures to funnel client assets from one account to another, culminating in personal withdrawals of over $250,000. |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Amy Borrus |
Wall Street's Dirty Rotten Little Scoundrels The SEC has a new plan to turn up the heat on small-time Wall Street fraudsters. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Hall of Shame Robert Brennan: Found guilty of stock fraud and fined $75 million... Meyer Blinder: Sentenced to 46 months in prison for racketeering, money laundering and stock fraud in 1992... etc. |
Registered Rep.
March 30, 2005
John Churchill |
House Urges SEC to Adopt Broker-Dealer Exemption Rule At issue, at least as far as financial planners are concerned, is that registered reps are presenting themselves as fiduciaries, when in fact they are brokers with a less-than-fiduciary responsibility to their clients. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009 |
Broker/Dealer News Actions by the SEC and FINRA |
Investment Advisor
June 2009 |
B/D News & Products Important news for broker/dealers: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is proposing a major expansion of its BrokerCheck service... Fraud charges against several entities and individuals who operate the Reserve Primary Fund... more... |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2007
Dawn Kopecki |
Backdating: Why Penalties Are Puny The SEC considers options violations less serious than other kinds of financial fraud. |
Registered Rep.
June 29, 2011
Kristen French |
Raymond James Hit With $300 million ARS Settlement; Pay Back For All ARS Clients The company has agreed to a multi-state settlement that will require the firm to buy back $300 million in auction rate securities it sold to clients prior to the collapse of the ARS market in February of 2008. |
BusinessWeek
December 15, 2003
Paula Dwyer |
Breach Of Trust The mutual-fund scandal was a disaster waiting to happen. An inside look at how the industry manipulated Washington |
Registered Rep.
March 14, 2012
Diana Britton |
SEC Goes After Venture Capital B/D Over Sale of Facebook Shares The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against New York-based venture capital broker/dealer Felix Investments and the firm's founder Frank Mazzola. |
CFO
January 30, 2004
Tim Reason |
Cheese It, the States! Corporate wrong-doers are finding state cops more aggressive than the feds. |
BusinessWeek
May 20, 2010
Jesse Westbrook & David Scheer |
How Big a Hit Will Goldman Take? Congress and the public expect the SEC to extract a big fine |
BusinessWeek
November 10, 2003
Dwyer & Borrus |
The Coming Mutual-Fund Reforms As mutual-fund abuses mount, regulators and lawmakers promise tough new rules. |
Financial Advisor
January 2004
Jay Gould |
Washed Up On The Banks Of Denial The SEC has changed its policies regarding anti-fraud consent injunctions. How should investment advisors react? |
Registered Rep.
March 24, 2005
Kristen French |
Mutual Fund Enforcement Picks Up Steam On March 23, the SEC and NASD handed out fines in mutual fund-related punishments totaling more than $80 million to five firms. And that is likely just the beginning of a coming avalanche of similar regulatory actions, legal experts say. |
Investment Advisor
April 2009 |
Changes People on the move: Paul Reilly will replace current Chairman and CEO Tom James as CEO of Raymond James Financial... FINRA hires Richard (Rick) Ketchum as its CEO... |
Registered Rep.
April 29, 2005
Kristen French |
Raymond James Fined, Drops Fee-Based Brokerage---Will Others Follow? Following the NASD fine of Raymond James for pushing fee-based accounts on the wrong clients, the next question is how the settlement will affect other firms that offer the same accounts, including wirehouse giants Morgan Stanley, Merrill and Smith Barney. |
Wall Street & Technology
November 18, 2005
Maria Wakem |
E-Mail Contention While most financial services firms are now compliant with SEC e-mail retention rules, the problem of selecting the best technology for the job still persists and is largely due to confusion among compliance and IT departments regarding what needs to be accomplished. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Alix Nyberg |
Regulation: Pitt and the Pendulum The kinder, gentler SEC Pitt envisioned vanished faster than you can say Arthur Andersen. Can he run a tougher, meaner agency? |
Registered Rep.
May 17, 2011
Diana Britton |
Advisors Promised the Moon, But Get Hard Cheese Most advisors said they had been recruited to a broker/dealer at one time or another based on promises that the firm later could not deliver on. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2006
Kristen French |
Both Sides Now Brokers who hold dual licenses -- both the Series 7 and Series 65 licenses -- will have to take fiduciary responsibility on some accounts. But they can also sell investments, after they make it crystal clear that they're doing so. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Dwyer & Thornton |
Mutual Funds Feel The Heat Did they feed information to hedge funds, brokers, and others? |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Blotter Shelf Space No No... Broker Gets 14 Years... |
Registered Rep.
September 18, 2007 |
Cease and Desist Order Looms for NEXT Financial Group The Securities Exchange Commission issued an Order Instituting Cease-and-Desist Proceedings against the independent broker/dealer late last month. |
Registered Rep.
February 11, 2004
John Churchill |
Dueling Trend Lines on Complaints Brokers have become more attuned to investor complaints in recent years, but they must be forgiven if they're having a hard time drawing conclusions from the trend numbers reported by regulators. |
Registered Rep.
February 21, 2007
John Churchill |
Who's Watching the Watcher? No One, Apparently The NASD fined Raymond James Financial Services $2.75 million today for inadequate sales supervision of its producing branch managers. |
InternetNews
October 22, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
Qwest Settles Fraud Charges The voice and data carrier will pay $250 million to end a two-and-a-half year probe. |
Registered Rep.
January 23, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Raymond James Lookin' Good--But For How Long? The folks at Raymond James have something to smile about -- the company posted positive numbers for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, and managed to beat some analysts' expectations. |
The Motley Fool
July 15, 2011 |
Raymond James Financial Earnings Preview Raymond James Financial will unveil its latest earnings on Wednesday, July 20. |
Registered Rep.
April 8, 2005
John Churchill |
`Merrill Rule' Debate Not Over The SEC unanimously voted to allow Series 7 holders, or registered reps, to position themselves as financial advisors -- with certain caveats. But once again the SEC seemed to hedge its bet. So the debate rages on. |
Financial Advisor
March 2012 |
Raymond James Hedges Bets Raymond James Financial Services CEO Dick Averitt related a story of how the independent contractor grew from a relatively small base 25 years ago to the largest part of the brokerage firm's business today. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
The Reformation When the scandal craze that has gripped the securities industry first began two years ago, few in the industry recognized how deep it might go. |
Investment Advisor
September 2008
Elizabeth D. Festa |
What's NEXT for Reg S-P? A recent ruling against NEXT Financial Group, Inc. creates a minefield of legal issues for financial advisors. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
Melanie Waddell |
When It Pays to Fight City Hall An annual analysis of litigated disciplinary proceedings brought by the SEC and FINRA against broker/dealers and registered representatives shows that it sometimes pays for B/Ds and reps to litigate against the regulators. |
Registered Rep.
February 13, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Raymond James Ramping Up Its RIA with New Leadership, Investment The new president, Bill Van Law, said the company plans to make a significant investment in the business in the months ahead. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008 |
Blotter The SEC charged 11 people and three companies for an alleged conspiracy that raked in $64 million from 40,000 investors. |
Registered Rep.
May 2, 2007
John Churchill |
SEC Fines A.G. Edwards for Failure to Supervise Add A.G. Edwards to the long list of firms that have been fined by the SEC for long-ago failures to supervise brokers who deceptively market timed mutual funds. |
