Finra promotes Susan Schroeder to head unified enforcement effort

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. has promoted Susan Schroeder to executive vice president and head of enforcement. She had been serving as head of enforcement since the departure of Brad Bennett earlier this year and previously was senior vice president and deputy chief of enforcement. (More: What Finra pays its top executives)

Finra also said it will consolidate its existing enforcement functions into a unified group led by Ms. Schroeder. The new unit ultimately will bring together an enforcement team handling disciplinary actions related to trading-based matters found through the market regulation department's surveillance and examination programs, and a team that handles cases referred from other regulatory oversight divisions including member regulation, corporate financing, the office of fraud detection and market intelligence, and advertising regulation. (More: Finra seeks to raise pressure on firms hiring rogue brokers, avoiding arbitration payments) Under the new structure, Ms. Schroeder will report to CEO Robert Cook. Before joining Finra in 2011, Ms. Schroeder was a partner at the law firm WilmerHale.