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Hugh Kennedy

Hugh has 35 years of expertise in the financial services industry, with publishing and legal research experience spanning the public company, investment adviser, broker-dealer, credit union and banking industries. As a senior-level manager, award-winning writer and conference speaker, he has covered key issues stemming from the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Department of Labor, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, NCUA, banking agencies, Capitol Hill, NASAA and other regulators. He has developed and created a number of new publications, online databases and value-added portals serving the needs of financial industry professionals.
New notice covers this year's CE Regulatory Element training assignments and calls out the Dec. 31 completion deadline
Having P&Ps in place to address OBA requirements falls short: the policies must be enforced
The case offers the lesson that you cannot leave sections of your WSPs essentially blank
Despite the numbers of broker-dealer firms continuing to fall, reps serving the brokerage industry have hit their highest level in five years
Less than 2% of survey respondents permit the use of personal e-mail for business communications
Nearly two-thirds of survey respondents flagged off-channel communications as their top compliance concern
The Commission's newly released regulatory agenda contains 34 items, several of which would impact IAs, B-Ds, and private fund advisers
Firm charged with including impermissible confidentiality language in three settlement agreements with customers
Firm fined for failing to reasonably supervise the transmittal of customer funds through externally initiated ACH transfers by third parties
Barclays twice self-reported violations of the rules relating to research analyst conflicts of interest leading to a $700K fine
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