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Registered Rep.
April 28, 2003
Will Leitch |
Historic Settlement Doesn't Target Brokers -- But You're Hardly Home Free Now that the Wall Street global settlement is official, brokers might be inclined to heave a sigh of relief. Don't. While the settlement will have a lasting impact on the brokerage industry, brokers have been unscathed by the Spitzer investigations -- so far.   |
Registered Rep.
August 30, 2005
John Churchill |
Retaining Those Pesky Emails Morgan Stanley is in for what could be a $10 million fine from the SEC for failing to retain emails, according to a report. |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2008 |
Bank of America to Buy Its ARs Back The nation's second-largest bank by assets settled an investigation by Massachusetts regulators, agreeing to buy back $4.5 billion worth of the securities. |
Registered Rep.
October 29, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Opposes Fine Following the New York Attorney General's investigation of Merrill Lynch's research practices, the firm was fined $100 million. The attorney general's office is in the midst of an ongoing investigation of other firms, including Morgan Stanley, which is fighting back. |
Registered Rep.
December 4, 2002
Ross Tucker |
Data Overload Five brokerage firms were fined $8.25 million for record-keeping violations. |
Registered Rep.
June 3, 2003
Will Leitch |
Brokerage Chiefs in Spitzer's Sights When New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the $1.4 billion settlement of the securities conflict of interest case in April, his office warned that it was "the beginning, not the end." Wirehouses are finding out, in a big way, that he wasn't kidding. |
Registered Rep.
September 25, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
NY Attorney General: I Could Have Nailed Merrill on More Serious Charges Eliot Spitzer said he could have pursued criminal charges against Merrill Lynch for its conflicts of interest in its research, but that he didn't want to "destroy" the firm or Wall Street. |
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. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2005
David J. Drucker |
Dazed and Confused Most financial advisers remain uncertain about exactly how to comply with SEC e-mail retention rules. RIAs need to make decisions about what to retain, how, and how to protect it. And there's little consensus on what to do. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2009
Thomas O. Gorman |
SEC v. Bank of America: Where to Go From Here? The SEC thought it had completed an investigation, brought an enforcement action and then settled it. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
Bob Veres |
The Big Regulatory Fix If the same few companies are behind virtually every major financial scandal and meltdown, why are the regulators talking about tightening up on all financial advisors? |
CFO
January 30, 2004
Tim Reason |
Cheese It, the States! Corporate wrong-doers are finding state cops more aggressive than the feds. |
Registered Rep.
July 25, 2007
Kevin Burke |
Smith Barney Fined $50 Million for Market Timing; More Firms, Reps To Be Fined So you thought the market timing scandal was over? Think again. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2007
John Churchill |
Subprime Mess: Merrill and Goldman Reportedly Under Eye of SEC The subprime debt market blowup has had very different effects on Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, but both firms could be getting a visit from the SEC to make sure everyone played by the rules. |
Registered Rep.
November 12, 2003 |
Morgan Stanley Launches Conflict-of-Interest Probe Morgan Stanley has announced it is conducting an in-house conflict-of-interest probe. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007 |
Blotter SEC Front Running Probe... NASD Fines Bank of America... |
Registered Rep.
August 25, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill Fighting Back Against Recent Defections The recruiting war for top brokers remains fierce. The latest evidence of the fight to win million-dollar producers involves the industry's biggest firms. |
Registered Rep.
August 2, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Fined $6.1 Million for Fee-Based Brokerage Slip-Ups NASD's investigation showed that from January 2001 through December 2003, Morgan Stanley failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system to review and monitor its fee-based brokerage business. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Merrill Call Centers Gone Wild Merrill Lynch agreed to pay a $5 million NASD fine to settle charges that the firm's brokerage client call centers were poorly supervised. |
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.
November 15, 2005
Kevin Burke |
Schwab Fined $1 Million for Lax Oversight of Non-Employee RIAs The enforcement action reinforces the steady drumbeat that firms will be held responsible for failing to have the proper systems in place to detect misconduct, even when the wrongdoers are not employees of the company. |
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.
November 9, 2009
Kristen French |
BofA Pressures Merrill FAs To Sell Bank Products Some of Merrill Lynch's 15,000 financial advisors are feeling pressure to sell parent company Bank of America's checking and savings account products -- and they're not happy about it. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2006
John E. Gebauer |
Your Mailbox Is Full For investment advisors, the regulations for email retention remain murky, but applying some best practices can help. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2003
Will Leitch |
NASD Investigates Potential Breakpoint Violations The confusing slew of regulations that have followed on the heels of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has tapped a strange feeling in brokers: the fear of violating securities rules unwittingly. A recent investigation by the NASD shows their worries are not unfounded. |
BusinessWeek
September 2, 2010
Moore & Mildenberg |
In the Battle of the Big Brokers, Merrill Is Winning Merrill Lynch earns higher profits with fewer advisers, thanks to a smooth integration with Bank of America and more cross-selling. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009 |
Broker/Dealer News Actions by the SEC and FINRA |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2005
Matt Barthel |
The Ten to Watch 2005: Learning to Live With the New Normal Lately, there is a palpable sense of acceptance in the brokerage industry that the new regulatory climate is likely to be a permanent one. Heralds of the new order: John Mack... Chris Cox... etc. |
Registered Rep.
August 18, 2004
Will Leitch |
SEC Unanimously Votes to Ban Directed Brokerage The 5-0 vote surprised few. Perhaps more worrisome was the call for comment on overhauling or banning outright 12b-1 fees, which were described as disguised commissions. |
BusinessWeek
July 28, 2003
Borrus & McNamee |
States vs. the SEC: What's All the Shouting for? On the surface, it looks like the fragile alliance between state and federal securities cops is crumbling. There's more -- and less -- going on here than meets the eye. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
Indie Research (A Non-Event So Far) When the Wall Street research scandal drew to its close last July, many reps wondered how it would change their lives. In addition to coughing up millions of dollars in fines, the firms agreed to new rules on how sell-side research would be conducted and presented to clients. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Ronald Fink |
Playing Favorites Why Alan Greenspan's Fed lets banks off easy on corporate fraud. |
Registered Rep.
October 20, 2005
John Churchill |
Merrill Call Center Under Microscope The financial firm's brokerage call centers, its service centers for less complicated and less profitable accounts, are under investigation by the NASD for past improprieties. |
Investment Advisor
January 2007
Kara Stapleton |
News & Products Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corporation announced plans to merge... The brokerage firm Jefferies & Co. will pay $9.7 million to settle SEC charges... New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has sued UBS... etc. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2002
Ross Tucker |
Happy Holidays! You're Fired. The ax will fall at year's end for some 700 of 13,500 Morgan Stanley brokers. Some branches will be closed entirely. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2006
Kristen French |
Brokers Learning to Play by New Rules It's no longer business as usual on Wall Street. Starting yesterday, broker/dealers must follow a new SEC rule that requires them to disclose at certain times that they may not be acting in their clients' best interest. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2012
Jennifer Woods Burke |
Gotcha! Audits Get Tougher This year, the SEC and FINRA launched a webinar for firms detailing their expectations and reaffirming that whether a firm is large or small, regulators expect the same level of diligence when it comes to audits. |
Registered Rep.
September 8, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Male-Bashing at Mother Merrill? Merrill's sex-discrimination troubles just won't go away. But this time it isn't a woman raising a stink. Blas Catalani, a former sales manager at Merrill Lynch's San Antonio office, is suing a female ex-broker and her lawyer on grounds that the two women conspired to get him fired. |
BusinessWeek
June 28, 2004
Emily Thornton |
Mutual Funds: The Cost Of Full Disclosure With Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman William H. Donaldson pushing for new rules aimed at providing greater safeguards for mutual-fund investors, brokerages worry that implementing them will cost billions of dollars. |
Registered Rep.
March 12, 2008
Kristen French |
Advisors: No Love Lost On Spitzer Eliot Spitzer, who's dramatic demise over the past few days has been covered backwards and forwards by every media outlet in the country, is not getting a lot of sympathy from the financial community. |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2009
Kristen French |
Gorman Grabs Morgan Stanley CEO Slot James Gorman, the former head of Morgan Stanley's retail brokerage division and now co-president of the firm, is slated to take over the CEO job in January, 2010. |
Salon.com
October 10, 2002
Damien Cave |
Wall Street's worst nightmare Does New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer really want to clean up the stock market, or just make himself look good? |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
The End of the World as We Know It? Is the traditional model for securities houses --- investment banking, research, asset management, retail brokerage all coexisting under one roof --- more trouble than it's worth? |
Registered Rep.
March 30, 2006
Kristen French |
Gorman Unrestrained Morgan Stanley retail chief James Gorman was freed by a New York State judge of the temporary restraining order that prevented him from raiding Merrill Lynch's brokerage ranks. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The Merrill Lynch Settlement: Good for Merrill, Not for Investors Many say the Merrill settlement does not resolve investors' fundamental concern: the inherent conflict produced by analysts' multiple dual role of serving investors and Merrill's investment banking business. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Buying Your Brokerage? There are good and bad ways to invest in securities firms. Look for these red flags before investing in a broker-dealer offering (BDO.) |
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? |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
Morgan Stanley Wishes It Weren't Like Goldman U.S. prosecutors are investigating whether Morgan misled investors in mortgage derivatives; similar to the charges against Goldman Sachs. |
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. |
InternetNews
May 17, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
Lucent Settles SEC Complaint The company looks to eliminate distractions in an improving climate for network equipment. |
