Here is our updated “Who Does What…. ” publication. Ernest E. Badway – Who Does What: Broker Dealers | Registered Investment Advisers | Commodities/Futures Entities – Updated 2023 (foxrothschild.com)
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FINRA’s Customer Dispute Expungement Regime: The Future Is Dark and Foreboding
This is the last in our series on the FINRA expungement process, and, unfortunately, the future looks grim.
Not only has FINRA made it nearly impossible (in an obvious attempt…
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FINRA’S Customer Dispute Expungement Regime: The Expungement Process
This is our second blog on the vanishing FINRA expungement process.
FINRA identifies specific grounds for expungement in FINRA Rule 2080. Rule 2080(b)(1) provided three specific grounds for expungement relief:…
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FINRA’s Customer Dispute Expungement Regime: The Central Registration Depository and FINRA BrokerCheck
Over the past 20 years, FINRA has made it nearly impossible for brokers to expunge customer complaints and dispute information from their public records. Over the next three blogs, we…
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Memories Are Not Only for Songs and Broadway But also FINRA Expungements
Although songs and Broadway musicals routinely call upon “memories” as inspiration, it usually is not the province for decisions in FINRA arbitrations. However, we were treated to a memory lesson…
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A FINRA Arb Panel’s Ingenious Method for Resolving CRD Marks
Securities attorneys routinely are asked by people in the securities industry a form of this question: “how do I get rid of the marks on my license.” Typically, registered representatives …
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Changes to CRD Coming Soon
FINRA, recently, announced a major overhaul of its Central Registration Depository (“CRD”). The first step will be a new WebCRD interface, effective June 30, 2018. More changes will come over…
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The Tale of the Recidivist Broker
The CEO of FINRA recently announced that FINRA plans to provide firms with additional resources to deal with recidivist brokers. So what does this mean?
For years, FINRA’s exam priorities…
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Why a Bad Broker Is Not Like Fine Wine
Unfortunately, a bad broker does not take on the same attributes as a fine wine. Bad brokers do rarely improve with time.
At least this was the recent message of…
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So Who Thinks FINRA Is Not Serious About Elder Issues?
FINRA recently barred a registered representative and fined that person $52,270, which represented the commissions he received from the sale of debentures to 12 senior investors. So what was so…
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