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Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007 |
Blotter Inside Job: The SEC charged 14 people in March in what one SEC official described as the biggest insider-trading scheme... Ponzi Scheming Manager: William Sirls, a former Wachovia branch manager was charged in early March with stealing...   |
Registered Rep.
August 30, 2005
John Churchill |
Retaining Those Pesky Emails Morgan Stanley is in for what could be a $10 million fine from the SEC for failing to retain emails, according to a report. |
CFO
May 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
All in the Families The SEC is aiming to sniff out improper relationships, including insider trading, between hedge funds and the companies they invest in. |
BusinessWeek
March 26, 2007
Matthew Goldstein |
UBS: Notes On A Wall Street Scandal How the lines between stock research and marketing can still blur so easily. |
Registered Rep.
March 3, 2006
Halah Tourylai |
Third Wirehouse Coughs Up Millions In Overtime Cases Yesterday, Morgan Stanley became the third wirehouse, after Merrill Lynch and UBS, to settle class action suits with California brokers over overtime pay in the past seven months -- the second in three weeks. |
Investment Advisor
January 2007
Kara Stapleton |
News & Products Bank of New York and Mellon Financial Corporation announced plans to merge... The brokerage firm Jefferies & Co. will pay $9.7 million to settle SEC charges... New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has sued UBS... etc. |
Registered Rep.
October 29, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Morgan Stanley Opposes Fine Following the New York Attorney General's investigation of Merrill Lynch's research practices, the firm was fined $100 million. The attorney general's office is in the midst of an ongoing investigation of other firms, including Morgan Stanley, which is fighting back. |
BusinessWeek
March 12, 2007
Matthew Goldstein |
Homing In On Trading Abuses Do allegations that a UBS worker sold info to hedge funds signal a growing problem? |
Registered Rep.
March 21, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
SEC and U.S. Attorney's Office Indict Traders and Executives in `Squawk Box' Scheme The SEC alleges that the fraudulent scheme allowed daytraders to trade based on overheard customer orders. |
Registered Rep.
September 21, 2007
Christina Mucciolo |
SEC charges 38 in Multi-Million Dollar Stock Loan Kick-Back Schemes Stock loan traders worked with phony stock loan "finders" to skim profits in the form of finder fees, and then took cash kick backs from these finders. |
Registered Rep.
May 9, 2007
Christina Mucciolo |
Morgan Stanley to pay $7.96 Million for Best Execution Fraud The SEC announced that Morgan Stanley will pay penalties to settle the charges against the firm for failing to provide best execution to clients. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008 |
Roids: Not Just For Baseball Bear Stearns attempted to impose a temporary restraining order on departed broker Doug Sharon. Sharon left for Morgan Stanley on March 17 -- the day after J.P. Morgan made a deal to buy the embattled Bear Stearns. Bear's TRO was rejected by a Massachusetts court. |
Registered Rep.
April 8, 2004
Joan Warner |
Trouble In The House That Purcell Built? After suffering through a cruel bear market, Morgan Stanley has come under regulatory scrutiny and legal fire for practices in several key businesses in the past two years, including mutual fund sales. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Star Wars Recruiting competition between the top brokerage firms is fiercer than ever, and Morgan Stanley is currently wielding one of the most powerful deals on Wall Street. |
Registered Rep.
December 12, 2006
John Churchill |
Spitzer: Thousands of UBS Clients Raped by Wraps The New York Attorney General's Office announced today that it is suing UBS Financial Services for allegedly defrauding thousands of customers through its InsightOne fee-based brokerage program. |
Registered Rep.
November 12, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Wealth Management R Us! The Gnomes of Zurich to Drop Kick the PaineWebber Name The century-old PaineWebber name is going to be dropped from UBS AG's brokerage and investment-banking businesses in 2003, the company says. The new name is to be, UBS Wealth Management USA. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Apres Purcell--Le Spinoff? Now that Morgan Stanley's CEO has given up, the future of the old Dean Witter organization is in question. Morgan Stanley remains under pressure to improve profitability and its stock price. |
Registered Rep.
February 6, 2003
Ross Tucker |
UBS Continues to Attract Talent UBS PaineWebber recently lured six more high-producing reps into its fold, offering further evidence that the firm is engaged in one of the Street's most vigorous recruiting campaigns. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Morgan Stanley's Mighty Swing The investment bank knocks results out of the park. Can it last? Investors, take note. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
Bill Singer |
E-Talk Is Not Cheap Just as there are rules and regulations limiting phone use by securities industry employees, there are similar restrictions and prohibitions about using the Internet. New wrinkles are being added all the time. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2008 |
Who's News Staffing announcements from wirehouses, regionals and private banks. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Morgan Brokers Still Heading for Exits There has been a parade of top brokers who have left Morgan Stanley in recent months. The losses, which began under embattled former CEO Phil Purcell, have not abated since his replacement, John Mack, arrived in June. |
The Motley Fool
May 4, 2007
Tom Taulli |
UBS Trims Its Hedge Stung by poor performance, the firm closes a key hedge fund. |
Registered Rep.
June 30, 2005
John Churchill |
Mack Back, Officially John Mack, former head of Morgan Stanley, returns hoping to quiet employee dissent and questions in the media about the firm's direction. |
Registered Rep.
February 18, 2009
John Churchill |
UBS Nailed With $780 Million Fine, Admits To Aiding Tax Dodge Clients The U.S. government has taken its pound of flesh from UBS today. According to a Department of Justice press release. |
Wall Street & Technology
August 20, 2007
Melanie Rodier |
Traditional Investigation Methods and New Tech Help Catch Insider Traders As insider trading rises globally, regulators and banks are using complex event processing and remote-control software to catch rogue traders. |
BusinessWeek
December 27, 2004
Emily Thornton |
Hedge Funds Find An Escape Hatch The loophole: Locked-up funds don't require oversight. That means more risk for investors. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007 |
Blotter SEC Front Running Probe... NASD Fines Bank of America... |
BusinessWeek
July 25, 2005
Stanley Reed |
The Master Of Zurich How Peter Wuffli turned around UBS- and brought the glory days back to Swiss banking. |
Registered Rep.
July 17, 2006
John Churchill |
Research Still a Problem, NASD Fines Three Firms Fines issued to Citigroup, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley are the result of the firms' failures to review and certify proper disclosure of price target valuation methods and risks, despite repeated warnings from NASD. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Foolish Forecast: Morgan Stanley Gets Ready to Deliver The financial firm will report it most recently quarterly earnings shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2006
Kristen French |
James Gorman's First Marking Period In his first four months as head of Morgan Stanley's brokerage unit, James Gorman wasted no time showing that a new regime was in place. But he hasn't convinced all the troops that it's worth sticking around to see how his turnaround plans play out. |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2003
Will Leitch |
Report: Citi, CSFB to Slash Investment Banking Jobs The market is up, the economic indicators are positive and life is happy and good, right? Not at Citigroup and Credit Suisse First Boston. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Insider Trading Up in 2006 NYSE Regulation says it expects to refer 140 potential insider-trading cases to the SEC in 2006. |
Registered Rep.
December 16, 2005
Halah Touryalai |
Former Pru Broker Penalized for Abusive Trading Three years after the SEC charged five Boston-based Prudential Securities brokers for abusive mutual fund trading, one of the accused is being temporarily barred from association with any broker/dealer or investment advisor. |
BusinessWeek
February 6, 2006
Emily Thornton |
More Heat On Hedge Funds As if there weren't enough controversy surrounding hedge funds, now the Securities & Exchange Commission is investigating suspicions that fund employees are engaging in insider trading. |
Registered Rep.
May 8, 2008 |
UBS Needs A Lift Ticket UBS is facing serious scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice to determine whether or not the bank aided clients in committing tax evasion from 2000 to 2007. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2005 |
Blotter Banc One Is No. 1 -- in Fine Size... Fleecing the Flock... Morgan Gets a Slap... |
Wall Street & Technology
August 22, 2006
Cory Levine |
Silverman Makes a Move to Morgan Morgan Stanley has brought in Andrew Silverman as managing director and head of U.S. electronic trading distribution. He will be responsible for getting the firm's electronic execution services into clients' hands. |
Registered Rep.
January 12, 2006
John Churchill |
UBS Dinged $50 Million for Market Timing New York Stock Exchange Regulation, along with the New Jersey Bureau of Securities, today announced that UBS Financial Services was fined $49.5 million for failure to supervise the deceptive market timing activities of its brokers. |
The Motley Fool
October 16, 2006
Dumortier & Khattab |
Investment Banks Under the Microscope Investors, which Wall Street firms make the grade? Goldman Sachs... Lehman Brothers... Bear Stearns... Morgan Stanley... Merrill Lynch... etc. |
Registered Rep.
July 5, 2012
Kristen French |
Blotter: July 2012 One of the biggest-ever Ponzi schemes in South Florida was busted in May... The SEC charged Quantek Asset Management, a Miami-based hedge fund advisor with lying to investors... |
Registered Rep.
April 4, 2008
Halah Touryalai |
Former Bear Broker Gets Okay From Judge A Bear Stearns broker is free to take his clients with him to his new digs at Morgan Stanley, a Massachusetts judge ruled today. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2007 |
Comings & Goings President and CEO of Janney Montgomery Scott, James Wolitarsky, will retire... UBS appointed Michael Roberts managing director and head of UBS Trust Services... Morgan Stanley hired 10 investment professionals... etc. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2006 |
Comings & Goings James Shorris has been promoted as the NASD's executive vice president... Robert Rands, of Vanguard Morgan Growth Fund, will retire... Andrew Donohue will be sworn in as the SEC's director of the Division of Investment Management... etc. |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2004
Will Leitch |
SEC Fines Seven More Broker/Dealers The SEC has nailed some additional broker/dealers for failing to disclose payment relationships they had with companies their research departments covered. |
Registered Rep.
October 6, 2004
Leitch & Gaffen |
Raymond James Fights the SEC's Fraud Charges The SEC brought fraud charges against the Tampa-based firm, saying the firm had looked the other way when a former broker scammed investors of approximately $44.5 million between 1999 and 2000. |
U.S. Banker
September 2007
Lee Conrad |
Oversight: Hedge Fund Transparency At Issue...Again The Securities & Exchange Commission is attempting to shine a spotlight on the most opaque of investments-hedge funds-by creating a working group in its enforcement division to combat insider trading. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2005
Will Leitch |
So They've Got That Going for Them...Which Is Nice For all the problems it's been having in the last several months, Morgan Stanley can hang its hat on this good news: It is now the largest securities firm in the country. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Morgan Stanley's Traders Score Big Morgan Stanley became the latest of the major investment banks to report better-than-expected earnings this week, sweetening some of the market's viciously sour mood. |
