All Financial Services articles – Page 34
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ArticleCredit Agricole to pay $1.1M to settle sanctions violations by 2 subsidiaries
Paris-based Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank will pay a total of approximately $1.1 million to settle charges its subsidiaries violated U.S. sanctions in five sanctioned countries.
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ArticleDeutsche Bank agrees to settle Jeffrey Epstein-related class action for $26.3M
Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $26.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by a group of the bank’s investors over anti-money laundering compliance failures and deficiencies related to certain clients, including Jeffrey Epstein and Danske Bank’s Estonia branch.
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ArticleRaymond James unit fined $500K for supervisory failures
A broker-dealer unit of Raymond James Financial agreed to pay $500,000 as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged supervisory failures that included the input of a misinformed compliance officer.
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ArticleCollateral damage aplenty in NYAG lawsuit against Trump Organization
The New York Attorney General’s lawsuit against former President Donald Trump is solely focused on penalizing his business and cohorts, but firms like Mazars and Deutsche Bank don’t come off well from a due diligence perspective.
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ArticleArcadia fined $90K for custody rule violations; CCO to undergo training
New York-based investment adviser Arcadia Wealth Management will pay $90,000 for violating a Securities and Exchange Commission rule by failing to obtain “surprise” examinations of advisory client assets.
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ArticleToews fined $150K over proxy voting violations
Investment adviser Toews Corp. agreed to pay $150,000 as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over proxy voting rule violations that prompted two commissioners to issue a dissenting statement.
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Waddell & Reed to pay $775K over wrap fee compliance failures
Investment adviser Waddell & Reed will pay about $775,000 as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for compliance failures and breaching its fiduciary duty.
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ArticleMorgan Stanley unit fined $35M for mishandling customer data
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney agreed to pay $35 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges it repeatedly disregarded the safeguarding of clients’ personal data in decommissioning local storage devices.
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ArticleTreasury seeking comment on illicit finance risks posed by digital assets
The Treasury Department is seeking public input on how to address illicit finance and national security risks posed by digital assets, part of a multipronged push by the Biden administration to hold bad actors accountable and identify potential enforcement and regulatory gaps.
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ArticleSEC fines four in pay-to-play enforcement sweep
Four investment advisers were fined between $45,000 and $95,000 by the Securities and Exchange Commission for violating the agency’s pay-to-play rule.
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ArticleDanske Bank fined $1.8M over AML checks in Ireland
Danske Bank was fined €1.82 million (U.S. $1.82 million) by the Central Bank of Ireland for omitting customers from automated financial crime checks between 2010-19 and failing to notify the regulator.
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ArticleLoop Capital fined $100K over municipal adviser registration violations
The Securities and Exchange Commission for the first time punished a broker-dealer—Chicago-based Loop Capital Markets—for providing advice to a municipal entity without registering with the agency as a municipal adviser.
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Prosperity Bank to pay $19K in first PPP lender false claims settlement
Houston-based Prosperity Bank will pay approximately $18,700 to resolve allegations it processed a Paycheck Protection Program loan for an ineligible recipient in what is believed to be a landmark False Claims Act settlement.
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ArticleBNY Mellon, 2 others settle with SEC in landmark municipal bonds cases
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged four underwriters with failing to satisfy exemption requirements related to limited offerings of municipal bonds—the first time the agency has taken such an action.
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Court orders $2M from Ambassador Advisors and execs, including CCO
Ambassador Advisors and three of its executives, including its chief compliance officer, must pay a total of more than $2 million for failing to disclose conflicts of interest related to fees received from mutual fund share classes selected for clients.
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ArticleNine fined in SEC crackdown on custody rule, Form ADV
Nine investment advisers failed to follow Securities and Exchange Commission rules designed to keep clients’ assets safe and/or timely disclose financial updates following audits, the agency announced.
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ArticleOCC studying risks posed by bank-fintech partnerships
Bank-fintech partnerships have grown “at exponential rates” and become so complicated it is often difficult to distinguish “where the bank stops and where the tech firm starts,” Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu said.
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Perceptive Advisors fined $1.5M for SPACs conflicts, disclosure violations
Perceptive Advisors agreed to pay $1.5 million for allegedly steering clients toward special purpose acquisition companies its investment advisers had financial interests in and failing to disclose those conflicts in a timely fashion.
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Aventura Capital to pay nearly $1M over conflict disclosure lapses
Florida-based investment firm Aventura Capital Management agreed to return more than $700,000 to harmed investors and pay a $225,000 fine for failing to disclose conflicts of interest regarding its mutual fund share class selection process.
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ArticleNatixis agrees to $2.8M CFTC fine for oversight failures
Natixis, a Paris-based global bank and swap dealer, will pay a $2.8 million fine to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to settle charges it failed to prevent rogue traders from submitting false and misleading entries on trades over five years.