BD Rules & Regulatory Actions

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Hennig’s written policies and procedures failed to adequately address its Disclosure Obligation because, among other things, they did not provide sufficient guidance or procedures for ...
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CGMI willfully violated the recordkeeping requirements of Section 17(a) of the Exchange Act and Rule 17a-3 thereunder, which require broker-dealers to make and keep current ...
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He abused his position to help several groups controlled by suspected or known securities laws violators illegally sell their OTC stock at manipulated prices to ...
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Commission staff uncovered Respondents’ misconduct after commencing a risk-based initiative to investigate the use of off-channel and unpreserved communications at broker-dealers
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Messages sent through unapproved communications methods, such as WhatsApp and other unapproved applications on personal devices, were not monitored, subject to review or archived
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Section 17(a)(1) of the Exchange Act and Section 204 of the Advisers Act authorize the Commission to issue rules requiring, respectively, broker-dealers and investment advisers, ...
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EXAMS encourages registrants to review and strengthen the policies, procedures, and internal controls of their AML programs to further their compliance with federal AML rules ...
Fifth Third acted as sole underwriter for 79 offerings of municipal securities where it sought to rely on the exemption but didn't satisfy the exemption’s ...
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The SEC proposes to amend the B-D customer protection rule to require certain broker-dealers to perform their customer and B-D reserve computations and make any ...
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After several requests by the Commission’s Examination and then Enforcement staff, Cantor conducted a multiyear lookback review for accounts that should have been assigned a ...
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