FINRA Fines Ameriprise $850K For Supervisory Failures

Posted on September 22nd, 2016 at 9:05 AM
FINRA Fines Ameriprise $850K For Supervisory Failures

From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law LLC:

Ameriprise was fined $850,000 by FINRA because it failed to supervise one of its registered representatives.  The Ameriprise representative served as a sales assistant and office manager when he or she converted $370,000 in client funds for personal use.  FINRA did not name the registered representative in its disciplinary action against Ameriprise. 

The employee converted the funds from accounts belonging to five Ameriprise clients who happen to also be family members. In 2014, the registered representative was barred by FINRA.

According to FINRA, the registered representative was caught in 2013 when a different Ameriprise employee discovered evidence in a trash can that demonstrated the unnamed representative forging the signature of a family member. 

FINRA fined Ameriprise because of its failure to adequately follow-up on red flags as well as investigate possible signature irregularities. 

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