It seems GunnAllen has another embarrassment on its hands: Seven investors who say they were the victims of a Ponzi scheme by Frank Bluestein, a former GunnAllen rep, have filed an arbitration claim against the Tampa firm.
Bear Stearns can’t seem to go down quietly. The firm is facing a number of lawsuits filed by employees, investors and possibly even civil charges courtesy of the SEC.
Cliff Popper, the flashy former Brookstreet Securities broker/trader at the center of the California firm's August collapse, is now suing his old clearing firm, National Financial Services (NFS), for $36 million in damages.
UBS announced today that the firm plans to write-down another $19 billion in housing-related credit securities held on its books by the end of the first quarter, bringing the firm's total sub-prime losses to $37 billion thus far. As a result, the...
If you are a retail financial advisor at UBS and have client assets stuck in the auction-rate securities market, your new ad slogan might be: “UBS, You Are Pissed At Us.” That’s because the Wall Street Journal’s website is...
JP Morgan’s chief may have asked asked rival firms to back off from hiring Bear Stearns advisors, but that doesn’t mean competitors have stopped offering recruiting deals to anxious Bear reps.
Morgan Stanley reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings today, at least temporarily easing investor nerves. Still, overall revenues and earnings were well below last year’s levels: Net revenue was $8.3 billion for the quarter, a...