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NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 14, 2010
Lincoln Financial hit with hefty arbitration award over selling away

Finra panel ruled that the B-D was 'negligent in not preventing' the outside business activities of a former broker

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 14, 2010
B-Ds bullying clients to settle arbitration cases: Regulator

Broker-dealers are browbeating clients to settle arbitration cases by inundating them with requests for discovery information, according to a top state securities regulator.

NEWS RIAS OCT 14, 2010
Finra fines brokerage $1M over illicit trading strategy

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.

NEWS MUTUAL FUNDS OCT 14, 2010
SEC to mutual fund biz: More clarity on derivatives, please

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.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 13, 2010
Finra proposal on public arbitration wins praise

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.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 13, 2010
Jamie Dimon: Next crisis could be 2015—before reform kicks in

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.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 10, 2010
J.R. Ewing hits a gusher: $11.5M arbitration award

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 10, 2010

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 10, 2010
State securities cops target structured products, gold scams

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.

NEWS ETFS OCT 08, 2010
ETF providers want to curb market orders

ETF providers are lobbying for tighter restrictions on market orders as regulators consider additional rules to avert another “flash crash.”

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 08, 2010
Four more banks bite the dust

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.

NEWS MUTUAL FUNDS OCT 07, 2010
Accounting proposal will smack actively managed funds, critics say

Bookkeeping change seen raising expense ratios for AMFs, tilting field in favor of index funds

NEWS LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES OCT 07, 2010
Point/Counterpoint: Are life settlements essentially securities?

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.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 06, 2010
SEC should impose uniform fiduciary standard: NASAA

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.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 06, 2010
B-D exclusion would render single fiduciary standard pointless: Professor

Laby says provision must be scrapped if SEC wants to mandate single standard of care: 'It's got to go'

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 04, 2010
Finra hits Scottrade with $200K fine

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

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 03, 2010
Solov: B-Ds bully clients in arbitration

Broker-dealers are browbeating clients to settle arbitration cases by inundating them with requests for discovery information, according to a top state securities regulator

NEWS MUTUAL FUNDS OCT 03, 2010
Investors turn to advisers for records related to market-timing scandals

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 03, 2010
Bonus ban wallops Finra officials in the wallet

Faced with withering criticism about pay levels, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. last year paid no bonuses to its top executives.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION OCT 01, 2010
Finra asks SEC to OK all-public panels for arbitration disputes

Investors filing claims against brokerages would be able to request public arbitration panels without industry representatives under a proposal Finra announced Tuesday.