As the SEC prepares to release any day now new rules on general solicitation following passage of the JOBS Act (see related story), you may ...
As you try to come to grips with how your firm handles reps' use of social media, you might want to consider some statistics a ...
Remember that if you file Suspicious Activity Reports on July 1 or later, you've got to use the electronic filing system to do so. The ...
An employee could elect to go to the SEC with word of possible misconduct, bypassing your internal compliance program. But if the person alerts you ...
The MSRB might require underwriters and municipal advisors to publicly disclose payments they make, or receive, in connection with new issues of municipal securities. The ...
FINRA CEO Richard Ketchum said last week that if FINRA becomes the self-regulatory organization for investment advisers, he would support a de minimis registration fee ...
Reps who recommend complex products ideally should be trained well enough to develop a payoff diagram for the products to help clients analyze their features ...
FINRA's case against Brookstone Securities - which was fined $1 million last week after a hearing panel determined it reaped big commissions by fraudulently making ...
FINRA officials say examiners won't shy away from asking what's happening on the investment adviser side of a dually registered firm if they're following a ...
The SEC will encourage FINRA to take a retrospective look at its rules' effectiveness, the Commission said in response to a GAOreport on its oversight ...