News and analysis for the well-informed compliance or audit exec.
Annual Membership best value
Subscribe now for $365
Our lowest price ($1 per day) for one year.
- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Aaron Nicodemus2024-05-09T19:16:00
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) fined three firms between $250,000 and $500,000 across separate actions for failing to properly implement, monitor, and supervise internal systems that led to compliance failures.
Oppenheimer & Co., a New York City-based broker-dealer, was fined $500,000 for failing to reasonably supervise transactions “that the firm’s registered representatives placed directly with product sponsors on behalf of firm customers” from 2012-17, FINRA said in its order signed Tuesday.
As a result, more than 490,000 of these direct business transactions placed on behalf of more than 14,000 customers were not reported on Oppenheimer’s daily trade blotter, as required. The transactions were not screened for potential sales practice violations, including “potentially unsuitable transactions,” the self-regulatory organization alleged.
THIS IS MEMBERS-ONLY CONTENT. To continue reading, choose one of the options below.
News and analysis for the well-informed compliance or audit exec.
Annual Membership best value
Subscribe now for $365
Our lowest price ($1 per day) for one year.
2024-05-10T16:55:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
Merrill Lynch was assessed an $825,000 penalty by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for alleged supervision failures regarding the execution of marketable equity orders entered into its electronic order systems.
2024-05-06T15:30:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
SoFi’s brokerage unit will pay a $1.1 million fine to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for fraud detection weaknesses that allowed thieves to create SoFi Money accounts using fake or stolen identities.
2024-04-30T20:43:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
RBC Capital Markets agreed to pay nearly $769,000 to settle allegations levied by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, in part, over sending inaccurate information in trade confirmations to customers over nearly a decade.
2024-07-02T20:35:00Z By Adrianne Appel
Three former executives of Chicago-based Outcome Health, a healthcare technology company, were sentenced for misleading an auditor, clients, lenders, and investors about a scheme to sell $45 million in overbilled advertisements.
2024-07-02T14:42:00Z By Adrianne Appel
A home health company operating in Indiana, Ohio, and Texas agreed to pay nearly $4.5 million to settle allegations it filed false claims by giving sports tickets and other kickbacks to assisted living facilities in exchange for referrals.
2024-07-02T13:50:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Crypto-friendly Silvergate Bank will pay a total of $63 million penalties to California and the Federal Reserve Board to settle charges that its anti-money laundering program failed to properly monitor more than $1 trillion worth of customer transactions.
Site powered by Webvision Cloud