The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Gary R. Headding and his former registered investment adviser firm, Envision Direct of Newport Beach, Calif., for defrauding two clients of at least $274,256.
Smaller broker-dealers are worried that a sweeping congressional proposal aimed at preventing fraud through comprehensive audits of brokerage firms could put them out of business.
Commssion backs a plan to limit fees on option trades. But the regulator also wants the largest stock traders to provide ID codes, records for transactions
For months, a task force for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. has been reviewing some of the major issues surrounding the professional use of social media in the financial services community – and now the self-regulatory organization has finally issued an overview of their guidelines.
A sports car worth nearly $2 million, an 87-foot yacht and a guitar collection worth as much as $20,000 were among the assets seized from a South Florida lawyer suspected of operating a massive fraud scheme, according to a court filing Monday.
Two California investment advisory firms were charged with improper short selling today by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
George Robison, the director of licensing for the Utah Division of Securities, is discussing taking legal action against his employer for allegedly retaliating against him because he participated in an audit of the division, according to people familiar with the situation.
With the Senate set to reconvene this week, the insurance industry is stepping up its efforts to encourage members of the Banking Committee to support a comprehensive study into whether brokers should be forced to adhere to a fiduciary standard.
A California couple has filed suit against The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co., an American International Group Inc. subsidiary, claiming that the company's sales agents misled investors about the tax advantages of using variable annuities in qualified retirement plans.
As the clock wound down on the Federal estate tax late last year, some financial advisers and attorneys saw an opportunity for their high-net-worth clients in this extremely muddled situation.
Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag.
The upset election last week in Massachusetts of Scott Brown to the Senate will have a more modest impact on financial services regulatory-reform legislation than on health care reform.
In a rarity, an arbitrator last month cited elder abuse in tripling the damages a discount securities firm must pay a 95-year-old client.
Vanguard CEO McNabb warns against the regulation of futures. For McNLeverage is the real issue, he says
After watching the fall of GunnAllen Financial Inc. become official this morning, the firm's founders —Donald James “Jay” Gunn and Richard Allen Frueh —are apparently moving to a rival broker-dealer.
Top bank executives can expect a grilling when they appear before a congressionally appointed panel investigating the causes of the 2008 financial collapse.
Finra expects to bring cases against brokerage firms involved in selling private-placement offerings next year, its head of enforcement said last week.
Finra has opened up its checkbook to lobby Congress for authority over investment advisers.
The news that Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut will not seek re-election this fall is a welcome development for both the nation's most powerful banking regulator, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and its toughest, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chief Sheila Bair.
A year after Wall Street failures plunged the nation into recession, the House on Friday passed the most ambitious restructuring of financial regulation since the New Deal.
