Former chief compliance officer Michael Cohn was also fined $50,000. A former Securities and Exchange Commission examiner, he was charged in October 2019 with obstruction of justice relating to an SEC investigation of GPB.
Since 2017, the firm has been on the hook for $16 million in legal settlements and restitution to clients, with the lion's share stemming from one broker's sale of alternative investments to a Native American tribe in Michigan.
Goldman Sachs enters the race to offer wealth management clients access to Bitcoin following Morgan Stanley. Which wirehouse could be next?
The firm plans to begin rolling out digital assets to clients in the second quarter.
The Securities and Exchange Commission summoned the banks for hasty meetings on what triggered the forced sale of more than $20 billion of stocks linked to Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management.
Traditional financial companies are beginning to embrace cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects more than a decade after the creation of Bitcoin in 2009. That comes even as some remain skeptical of mainstream adoption.
The company's proposed exchange-traded fund would track the cryptocurrency using pricing from U.S.-based exchanges including Bitstamp, Coinbase and Gemini.
Special purpose acquisition companies are leveraging celebrity endorsements to drive investor demand, while financial advisers struggle to protect clients from risk.
Calton & Associates, with 400 reps and advisers, is looking at paying restitution of close to half a million to clients who bought leveraged exchange-traded funds.
Complaint is first time environmental groups have brought such claims to the Federal Trade Commission against an oil giant.
Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been all the rage for the past 12 months, but will the fever outlast the pandemic?
The vehicles are touted for democratizing markets by allowing retail investors access to high-growth companies. But the SEC said they come with distinct risks.
Royal Alliance Associates Inc., SagePoint Financial Inc., and FSC Securities Corp., increased legal reserves by as much as three times the amount of the prior year.
Advisers don’t have to join the bulls, but they better join the discussion.
The deal shows that private equity investors are starting to move down-market to invest in smaller registered investment advisers.
The rebranded PE fund targets the country's 13 million accredited households with an offer of access to KKR's investment expertise.
Ascendant Alternative Strategies changed its official status with Finra to termination requested. Founders of GPB, David Gentile and Jeff Schneider were arrested and charged with fraud last month by the FBI.
The former nontraded REIT czar is looking for a next act in the securities industry, and this time it's a family affair.
The manager of the Infinity Q liquid alt fund was fired after being accused of fudging asset values. The fund could not value its assets for purposes of calculating its net asset value.
Nico Marais will stay on as CEO of the $603 billion business after the sale to GTCR and Reverence Capital Partners, while there will be fresh faces on the board.
