Firm is offering advisers upwards of three times prior year's revenue to move.
The regulator sees patterns in the behavior and disclosures of high-risk brokers.
After a personal payday of $75 million or more, CEO Joe Duran plans to join Goldman in a senior position.
Additional obligations would be imposed on these firms such as requiring them to create reserve accounts to pay unpaid arbitration awards.
Three big acquisitions in less than a year signals renewed life in the formerly beleaguered industry.
Goldman is paying $750 million for the RIA aggregator, according to one source.
Private equity buyer would grab a 75% stake in IBD network that produced $1.7 billion in revenue last year and has nearly 11,800 advisers.
The aggregator reported 24 transactions either pending or closed so far this year.
The B-D network produced $1.7 billion in total revenue last year.
The two advisers left Credit Suisse after the company announced it was closing its U.S. brokerage operation.
