FINRA Suspends Former CEO of CFG Capital Markets

Posted on December 17th, 2020 at 4:01 PM
FINRA Suspends Former CEO of CFG Capital Markets

From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law LLC:

Former CFG Capital Markets (“CFGCM”) CEO and Executive Managing Director, Kevin Rast, has agreed to pay a $7,500 fine and serve a four-month suspension from association with any FINRA member firm in any capacity. According to FINRA Enforcement, Rast submitted altered and misleading documents to FINRA and he also failed to ensure that CFGCM made adequate disclosures regarding potential conflicts of interest.

According to a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (“AWC”) signed by Rast in November 2020, FINRA sent Rast two requests for documents in 2016.  In response to those requests, Rast submitted documents to FINRA in which he had altered the date on the documents, FINRA alleged. According to FINRA, the altered documents “gave the false appearance of contemporaneous supervisory review of the firm’s report cards when [Rast] had not conducted such a review[.]”

Additionally, FINRA found that Rast failed to make proper disclosures of material conflicts of interest in connection with two municipal bond offerings in the fourth quarter of 2015. According to FINRA, CFGCM failed to disclose its relationship with the company that acted as “asset manager” for those bond offerings.

FINRA found that Rast’s conduct constituted violations of Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board Rule G-17, which requires individuals to deal fairly with all persons and not engage in deceptive, dishonest or unfair practices. By signing the AWC, Rast accepted and consented to the entry of FINRA’s findings without admitting or denying those findings.

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