Stock exchanges should lose SRO status: SIFMA
Trade group calls for review of B-D and exchange regulatory structures.
LPL ratchets up effort to "mobilize’ its troops
LPL Financial LLC last week announced major upgrades to its technology platform, ranging from mobile access and website…
LPL CEO on tech, a bank, regulators
Catching up with Mark Casady at the firm's annual adviser conference.
Raymond James offers alts to RIAs
Access to PE, real estate, hedge funds, managed futures and alternative mutual funds coming next month.
RIAs the busy beavers in M&A
Access to new markets, new capabilities, succession driving activity.
CFP Board to scold former chairman over pay disclosure
Former CFP Board chairman Alan Goldfarb says he'll be getting a public scolding for his pay disclosure and argues the board didn't give him impartial treatment. How it all started
Finra going all out to control e-mail
The $7.5 million fine against LPL Financial last week for e-mail violations is the largest ever brought by Finra just for e-mail violations. Warning: it's the latest example of the regulator's stepped-up enforcement effort in this area.
NFP: Requiem for a roll-up
Jessica Bibliowicz’s experiment of rolling up a diverse group of financial services firms has ended with a thud.
All in the family as RIAs step up to buy other RIAs
'Serial' buyers - firms doing three or more deals - becoming more common.
Focus adds $2.2 billion RIA Telemus
Latest deal increases roster of partner firms to 27