Morgan Stanley reported bad news on first quarter retail earnings today. Both pre-tax income and margins declined steeply for its brokerage business, but in a conference call this morning chief financial officer David Sidwell expressed optimism...
Congress is moving forward on adding an amendment to the three-decade-old Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) that could have a significant impact on the way registered representatives do business.
A federal judge barred for life a former Prudential Securities broker for failing to respond to an order instituting proceedings (OIP) issued by the SEC over fraud charges.
In his first step as head of retail brokerage at Morgan Stanley, James Gorman has streamlined the firm’s regional office structure -- reducing regional offices to four from eight and cutting out one layer of management. To head up the new...
The SEC hit Bear Stearns with a $250 million penalty for securities fraud for facilitating market-timing and late trading for certain institutional customers to the detriment of others.
Merrill Lynch agreed Monday to pay an SEC fine of $2.5 million to settle charges that it had impeded a government investigation into its business practices by dragging its feet on turning over email records.
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