- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Jeff Dale2024-09-12T15:11:00
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined JPMorgan Securities $190,000 for unregistered investment banking activities and not having a supervisory system reasonably designed to achieve compliance with FINRA registration requirements.
The firm permitted 10 individuals in its U.S. Investment and Corporate Banking Group (ICB) to perform investment banking activities without required registration with FINRA, the self-regulatory agency said in a disciplinary action Monday.
From October 2020 through January 2022, the unregistered persons worked as part of investment banking deal teams and engaged in activities requiring registration, such as “advising clients on securities offerings or drafting marketing materials for offerings,” FINRA said.
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New York-based investment firm Drexel Hamilton will pay more than $1.1 million in penalties, with four current and former employees paying fines as well over committing hundreds of violations of rules regarding the sale of municipal bonds.
Two affiliates of JPMorgan Chase have agreed to pay $151 million to settle five separate enforcement actions for making misleading disclosures, breaching fiduciary duties, and other failures related to investors.
Cantor Fitzgerald agreed to pay more than $151,000 and be censured as part of a settlement with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority over alleged supervisory failures in respect to over-the-counter securities.
A bank examiner and senior manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond pled guilty to insider trading after allegedly misappropriating confidential information on seven banks to make profitable trades.
A publicly traded cryptocurrency mining company will pay $10 million and completely change its business model to one with “lower corruption risk” as part of a settlement over violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), two regulators announced.
A subsidiary of MetLife will pay more than $178,000 for violating U.S. sanctions on Iran when it provided insurance policies to entities in the United Arab Emirates owned or controlled by Iran.
