- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2023-08-29T18:23:00
A Chicago-based broker-dealer agreed to pay a $1.5 million penalty as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for allegedly failing to file nearly 500 suspicious activity reports (SARs) largely related to microcap or penny stock securities transactions.
Archipelago Trading Services operates an over-the-counter (OTC) alternative trading system (ATS) for equity securities used by broker-dealers to execute trades. The SEC faulted the firm for not properly supervising high-risk securities transactions it executed daily over an eight-year span, the agency said in a press release Tuesday.
Beginning in August 2012, Archipelago operated its ATS, known as Global OTC, without a reasonably designed anti-money laundering (AML) surveillance program for its transactions, according to the SEC’s order. It wasn’t until September 2020 that the firm established proper AML policies and procedures for tracking transactions.
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