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FINTECH SEP 15, 2010
Goldman tie-up with Incapital broadens its muni distribution

Arrangement puts underwriter on retail par with other major firms

By Bloomberg
Registered rep gets 68 months in jail for stealing $1M from elderly
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 14, 2010
Registered rep gets 68 months in jail for stealing $1M from elderly

A New Jersey financial adviser who admitted stealing more than $1 million from eight elderly clients has been sentenced to 68 months in federal prison.

By InvestmentNews Staff
Obama to back more tax breaks?
RIA NEWS SEP 14, 2010
Obama to back more tax breaks?

President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of showing action on the economy ahead of the November elections.

By Associated Press
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 14, 2010
Stricter rules may be needed for high-frequency traders: Schapiro

Flash crash exposed vulnerabilities in U.S. stock trading system, SEC's chairman says

By Jed Horowitz
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 14, 2010
Fidelity launches charitable-planning service

Fidelity Investments has introduced a priority services group for high-net-worth investors in its Charitable Gift Fund.

By Jessica Toonkel
RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 14, 2010
The fight over 401(k) advice: Will anyone win?

In trying to clarify who can give advice to 401(k) plan participants and under what circumstances, the Department of Labor appears to have antagonized just about everybody.

By Robert Steyer
OPINION SEP 14, 2010
Knee-jerk reaction to market's free fall should be avoided

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the various stock exchanges must resist the temptation to react impulsively to the market meltdown that occurred May 6.

By MFXFeeder
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 13, 2010
Dodd-Frank's unintended consequence

The Dodd-Frank financial-reform law has created the potential for great uncertainty in the investment advisory and financial planning business.

By MFXFeeder
Finra closes B-D for excessive markups
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 13, 2010
Finra closes B-D for excessive markups

Finra has shuttered a small Texas broker-dealer for allegedly charging clients excessive markups on $1.3 million in securities transactions.

By Bruce Kelly
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 13, 2010
Fired analyst ordered to pay ex-firm $10.7M

Finra arbitrators have ordered a securities analyst who claims he was wrongfully fired by Rodman & Renshaw LLC in 2006 for attempting to lower a stock rating to pay the broker-dealer $10.7 million in damages.

By Bruce Kelly
Details emerge on one of Warren Buffett's possible successors
RIA NEWS SEP 13, 2010
Details emerge on one of Warren Buffett's possible successors

Li Lu, the hedge-fund manager who helped Berkshire Hathaway Inc. find profits in China, may push Warren Buffett's investment company to make more deals outside the U.S. if he takes a role at the company.

By Bloomberg
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 12, 2010
Will GAO study trump SEC's fiduciary report?

By Mark Schoeff Jr.
FINTECH SEP 12, 2010
Vanguard web service compares annuities

By Davis Janowski
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 10, 2010
Raymond James axes Conn. broker amid SEC probe

Raymond James Financial Services Inc. early this month fired a broker who held key financial positions in local Connecticut politics after discovering he was under investigation for misappropriating clients' funds.

By Bruce Kelly
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 10, 2010
Raymond James pays more auction rate claims

For the third time this summer, securities industry arbitrators have ordered brokerage units of Raymond James Financial Inc. to return money to clients who brought claims over frozen auction rate securities.

By Bruce Kelly
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 10, 2010
More small B-Ds struggle to maintain capital reserves

Low trading volume, credit crunch put firms in regulator's sights

By Bruce Kelly
REGULATION AND LEGISLATION SEP 09, 2010
SEC claims ex-State Street CIO misled investors

The Securities and Exchange Commission is charging two employees at State Street Bank and Trust Co. with misleading investors about their exposure to subprime investments.

By Associated Press
FINTECH SEP 08, 2010
Here's a first: Tech IPOs lagging large-cap performance

Days of Nasdaq offerings trouncing S&P 500 at an end; 'looking for the next Google' -- and not finding it

By Bloomberg
SEC about to rock muni bond world?
FIXED INCOME SEP 08, 2010
SEC about to rock muni bond world?

Settlement of N.J. suit seen as opening salvo in crackdown on lax disclosure; 'harbinger'

By Bloomberg
WIREHOUSES SEP 08, 2010
Squawk box brokers lose retrial bid on new evidence

A former broker at Merrill Lynch & Co. and Citigroup Inc. lost a bid to throw out his conviction for selling access to his brokerages' internal “squawk boxes” after arguing prosecutors hid evidence of his innocence.

By Bloomberg