A former Dallas-based broker has settled civil charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after stealing nearly $3 million from his clients over nine years.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has permanently barred Brite Advisors USA, a New York-based investment adviser managing roughly $400 million in assets, from operating in the advisory business.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) is moving forward with a proposal that would give broker-dealers limited ability to market performance projections and targeted returns under specific conditions.
The SEC has permanently barred Brite Advisors USA from operating as an investment adviser, citing serious custody rule violations and undisclosed conflicts of interest tied to its offshore affiliate, as reported by Financial Advisor News.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) has proposed a rule change that would allow broker-dealers and registered representatives to seek a stay of certain disciplinary sanctions before those penalties take effect.
AdvisorHub reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee has finalized a recommendation urging the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to rein in the use of mandatory arbitration clauses by registered investment advisers (“RIA”s).
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has charged David A. Nagler and his firm, New Line Capital LLC, with defrauding clients through deceptive fee disclosures and undisclosed conflicts of interest.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has charged Marine Corps veteran Christopher Aubin with fraud, accusing him of running a $2.5 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded dozens of investors, including several of his former military colleagues.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has charged Kenneth Mattson, former CEO of LeFever Mattson, with orchestrating a $46 million investment fraud scheme that targeted approximately 200 investors, many of them retired senior citizens
from his church community in California.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has filed charges against Kenneth W. Alexander II, Robert D. Welsh, and Caedrynn E. Conner, all Dallas-Fort Worth residents, for orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that raised at least $91 million from over 200 investors.
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According to Bloomberg Law, there now are the tools, tactics, and a psychology of gambling that increasingly resembles those of retail trading.
FINRA filed a complaint against former Morgan Stanley advisor Kirk J. Crossen, alleging that he borrowed $400,000 from an 84-year-old customer experiencing early-stage dementia and concealed the loans from his firm.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) ordered Wedbush Securities to pay $150,000 after identifying significant compliance and supervisory failures involving customer margin securities and required bond-pricing disclosures.
