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Registered Rep.
July 31, 2008
John Churchill |
Massachusetts Says Merrill Defrauded ARS Clients Among the many claims against Merrill Lynch is that management censored otherwise gloomy fixed income research in order to move volatile inventory out of company inventory and into client portfolios.   |
Registered Rep.
June 29, 2011
Kristen French |
Raymond James Hit With $300 million ARS Settlement; Pay Back For All ARS Clients The company has agreed to a multi-state settlement that will require the firm to buy back $300 million in auction rate securities it sold to clients prior to the collapse of the ARS market in February of 2008. |
Registered Rep.
July 20, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
The Auction Rate Securities Mess Still Lives This time it was TD Ameritrade, without admitting or denying guilt, who settled with the SEC "for making inaccurate statements when selling auction rate securities (ARS) to customers." |
Registered Rep.
October 8, 2008 |
Bank of America Reaches Second Settlement To Buy Back ARS The agreement closely mirrors the firm's earlier settlement with the Massachusetts Securities Division that was announced in September, 2008. |
Registered Rep.
June 26, 2008
John Churchill |
Tough Morning For Brokerage Sector Stomachs are surely turning at the wirehouse brokerage firms this morning. |
Registered Rep.
June 3, 2009
David Geracioti |
ARS Games -- SEC Blames Firms, Settles with BAC, RBC and DEUTSCHE When the auction rate securities market froze up in February 2008, angry clients blamed their financial advisors. |
Registered Rep.
December 11, 2008 |
SEC Finalizes $30 Billion ARS Settlement With Citi And UBS The $30 billion settlement is the largest in SEC history and restores liquidity to ARS investors at par value of their holdings. |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2008 |
Bank of America to Buy Its ARs Back The nation's second-largest bank by assets settled an investigation by Massachusetts regulators, agreeing to buy back $4.5 billion worth of the securities. |
Registered Rep.
June 9, 2008 |
Credit Downgrades, More Write-Downs And The ARS Market Credit downgrades to MBIA and AMBAC Financial Group, the world's largest bond insurers, will lead to more write-downs at Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and UBS, according to a new research report. |
Registered Rep.
November 8, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Auction Rate Revenge For tens of thousands of investors who were trapped in the auction rate securities debacle that started in 2008, finances are getting back to normal. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2009
Robert Steyer |
The Daily Walk of Shame: Auction Rate Securities Auction rate securities were promoted as being as safe as CDs, but when the ARS soured in early 2008 and customers wanted their money back, promoters said the accounts were frozen. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2008
Donna Mitchell |
Auction-Rate Securities Dust Settles, But What About Small Brokerages? Observers expect red faces as regional brokerage customers are left out of the settlements and advisors better prepare for some harsh words. |
The Motley Fool
August 20, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Should Your Broker Pay for Your Losses? When New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Monday sued Charles Schwab for allegedly misrepresenting the risks inherent with auction-rate securities, he sent a message: Take care to warn investors early and often, or suffer the consequences. Is this a good idea? |
Registered Rep.
September 3, 2008
John Churchill |
Brokers Charged In Fraudulently Selling $1bn Of ARS To Retail Clients In the first case of its kind, the SEC announced today that it has charged two individual financial advisors with fraud related to the sale of more than $1 billion in auction-rate securities. |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2011
John Reeves |
Banks Promise Not to Commit Fraud ... Until Next Time Banks have been signing pledges that they do not follow through on. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Overtime Settlements Stacking Up Citigroup agreed in mid-May to pay a record $98 million to past and present advisors to settle their overtime-pay claims. It's the fourth major financial firm to settle a class-action suit regarding overtime pay within the past 10 months. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2008
David Geracioti |
The Auction-Rate Mess And You Many retail investors have recently learned the hard way that auction-rate securities aren't as safe as they thought. |
Registered Rep.
June 3, 2003
Will Leitch |
Brokerage Chiefs in Spitzer's Sights When New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the $1.4 billion settlement of the securities conflict of interest case in April, his office warned that it was "the beginning, not the end." Wirehouses are finding out, in a big way, that he wasn't kidding. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Hot Topics FINRA steps in... $80 million settlement of two class-action suits by Securities America... Whistleblower payday... |
CFO
July 15, 2009
Vincent Ryan |
Buyer's Remorse Treasury departments are still paying a price for auction-rate securities. |
The Motley Fool
August 12, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Auction Rate Ugliness Returns Quit blaming others when your portfolio explodes. |
Registered Rep.
February 4, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
NY AG Names Names -- Charges Ken Lewis With Fraud The New York Attorney General's office today charged Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis with fraud for failing to disclose material details about Merrill Lynch in its merger with the brokerage. |
Investment Advisor
April 2010 |
B/D News Licensing for insurers and brokers... scamming Madoff victims... NASAA's settlement with UBS... |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Justice for Bank of America Shareholders Bank of America shareholders are getting some justice, and those singlehandedly responsible for transforming the bank from a world-class enterprise into a taxpayer-sucking ward are being held accountable. |
Registered Rep.
March 28, 2008
David A. Geracioti |
More Trouble In Auction-Rate Securities Land The State of Massachusetts Secretary of State is investigating the sales practices of auction-rate securities, to learn how these securities are presented to individual clients in the state. |
CFO
January 30, 2004
Tim Reason |
Cheese It, the States! Corporate wrong-doers are finding state cops more aggressive than the feds. |
On Wall Street
October 1, 2009
Thomas O. Gorman |
SEC v. Bank of America: Where to Go From Here? The SEC thought it had completed an investigation, brought an enforcement action and then settled it. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2005
John Churchill |
Merrill Takes a Late Hit on Research Scandal An NASD arbitration panel ordered Merrill Lynch to pay more than $1 million to an investor last month for hiding conflicts of interest and issuing fraudulent research. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2012
Kristen French |
Due Diligence: Step Back Rakoff, SEC-Citigroup Settlement Could Stand Judge Jed Rakoff may have overstepped his authority, said a federal appeals court today. In a procedural decision, the court wrote that the Securities and Exchange Commission has a good chance of overturning Rakoff's rejection of a $285 million SEC settlement with Citigroup. |
Registered Rep.
May 22, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Brokers Ring Up Another Big Overtime-Pay Settlement Citigroup has agreed to pay a up to $98 million, a record-breaking figure, to past and present advisors to settle their overtime-pay claims. |
Registered Rep.
June 10, 2003
Will Leitch |
Citi Board Receives Dubious Distinction Well, here's more bad news for Citigroup, in case the company isn't immune to it by this point. A study released by Portland, Maine-based The Corporate Library (TCL) says that Citigroup has the worst board of directors in the country. |
Investment Advisor
April 2009
James J. Green |
B/D Briefing: Calm Before the Storm? A new report found that the average securities class action settlement was halved in 2008, but the authors of Securities Class Action Settlements: 2008 Review and Analysis, caution that the reported decrease doesn't constitute a trend. |
U.S. CPSC
December 4, 2009 |
Excelligence Learning Corp. to Pay $25,000 Civil Penalty Due to Violation of Lead Paint Ban The settlement resolves allegations that Excelligence imported more than 33,000 units of children's products that contained lead paint above the 0.06 percent legal limit |
BusinessWeek
May 20, 2010
Jesse Westbrook & David Scheer |
How Big a Hit Will Goldman Take? Congress and the public expect the SEC to extract a big fine |
Registered Rep.
December 5, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Spitzer Returns! New York A.G. Probes Wall Street On Mortgage-Backed Securities The punches keep on coming for some of Wall Street's biggest firms, as a handful of firms were sent subpoenas late this summer courtesy of New York State Attorney General. |
Entrepreneur
August 2004
Julie Monahan |
Payback Time Settlement dollars from the SEC crackdown on mutual fund malfeasance will reach millions. But will you get your fair share? |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The Merrill Lynch Settlement: Good for Merrill, Not for Investors Many say the Merrill settlement does not resolve investors' fundamental concern: the inherent conflict produced by analysts' multiple dual role of serving investors and Merrill's investment banking business. |
The Motley Fool
March 7, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Auction-Rate Anxiety The credit crisis hits leveraged mutual fund shareholders. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
Time Warner: Waning Vitality The long-suffering shareholders of media giant Time Warner are paying a hefty price -- $3 billion dollars in cold cash. That's the reserve set aside to settle lawsuits regarding the overstatement of revenue at AOL between 1999 and 2002. |
The Motley Fool
April 18, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Auction Rate Agony Investors get frozen out of their money as auction rate securities shrivel. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
Andrew Ackerman |
In First, Mass. Sues UBS In the first state-level lawsuit against an investment firm over auction-rate securities, Massachusetts has filed securities fraud charges against UBS for selling retail investors auction-rate paper as "liquid, safe, money-market" instruments even though the defendants knew it was not. |
CFO
February 1, 2006
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Penalty Box The SEC is handing out bigger and bigger fines for misdeeds. But is this the right approach? |
Reason
March 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Lender Ender Threats from state and federal regulators have led Prosper, an online auction site that allowed individuals to negotiate private loans, to suspend its operations and leaves its future uncertain. |
InternetNews
August 4, 2010 |
HP, DoJ Reach Deal to Settle Kickback Case Without admitting guilt, the computing giant has reached a settlement with authorities at the Department of Justice to resolve allegations that it provided kickbacks to win government contracts. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2010
Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Steven Rattner Quadrangle's co-founder and Obama's car czar just settled with the SEC over the pay-to-play pension fund scandal. Now, Andrew Cuomo wants a piece of him. |
Registered Rep.
July 15, 2010
Kristen French |
Goldman Sachs Agrees To Record $550 Million Abacus Settlement The settlement, which must still be approved by the court, represents the first case brought by the S.E.C.'s new structured and new products unit. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2011
Ilan Moscovitz |
Rising Star Trade: What We're Doing With Bank of America Time to cover up. |
On Wall Street
January 1, 2010
Alan J. Foxman |
Blamed for ARS He Didn't Sell Misrepresenting auction-rate securities... BrokerCheck public disclosure system... |
Registered Rep.
April 28, 2003
Will Leitch |
Historic Settlement Doesn't Target Brokers -- But You're Hardly Home Free Now that the Wall Street global settlement is official, brokers might be inclined to heave a sigh of relief. Don't. While the settlement will have a lasting impact on the brokerage industry, brokers have been unscathed by the Spitzer investigations -- so far. |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2009
John Churchill |
Pressure to Reign In Executive Compensation Grows New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo released a report today on the compensation practices of the banking industry. Top on the list of concerns was the compensation structure at larger banks. |
