The staunchest opposition to a universal fiduciary standard that would put clients' interests first isn't from securities brokers. It's from insurance agents, comments to the Securities and Exchange Commission show.
U.S. brokerages want to weigh in on how much the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority pays its senior executives and urged the watchdog to hire outsiders to investigate its ties to convicted money manager Bernard Madoff.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. is telling its member firms to vote against a series of proxy proposals put forth by a small California broker-dealer.
Finra panel ruled that the B-D was 'negligent in not preventing' the outside business activities of a former broker
Broker-dealers are browbeating clients to settle arbitration cases by inundating them with requests for discovery information, according to a top state securities regulator.
Market regulators have fined a New York-based brokerage firm $1 million for creating a false sense of demand for stocks that earned it profits.
U.S. regulators said mutual funds aren't telling investors enough about why they use derivatives, with some funds providing “generic” disclosures and others failing to explain how the products affect performance.
Finra's efforts last week to open up its arbitration process have pleased — but not satisfied — critics who claim that the proposal doesn't go far enough to protect investors.
The financial system experiences a crisis “every five to seven years,” JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in January.
Broker-dealers' sales of structured products, including private-placement notes and reverse convertibles, remain a top concern of state securities regulators, according to Joseph Borg, director of the Alabama Securities Commission.
ETF providers are lobbying for tighter restrictions on market orders as regulators consider additional rules to avert another “flash crash.”
Regulators on Friday shut down Midwest Bank and Trust Company in Elmwood Park, Ill., as well as three smaller banks in Georgia, Michigan and Missouri to bring the number of U.S. bank failures this year to 72.
Bookkeeping change seen raising expense ratios for AMFs, tilting field in favor of index funds
On July 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission released a report from its Life Settlements Task Force which recommended that the SEC urge Congress to amend federal securities laws to include life settlements as securities.
Despite the protests of life insurance agents and broker-dealers, the Securities and Exchange Commission should decide in favor of a uniform fiduciary standard for all investment professionals, according to the new head of the North American Securities Administrators Association Inc.
Laby says provision must be scrapped if SEC wants to mandate single standard of care: 'It's got to go'
The discount brokerage allegedly let day some traders using borrowed money keep on trading -- even though the value of their holdings fell below regulatory minimums
