Paul Lebel, formerly registered with LPL Financial, was barred by the Securities and Exchange Commission for defrauding four customers by churning their accounts.
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Paul Lebel, formerly registered with LPL Financial, was barred by the Securities and Exchange Commission for defrauding four customers by churning their accounts.
In 2015, wirehouse firms such as UBS Financial, Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo Advisors and Morgan Stanley, incurred a net loss of 312 reps.
LPL Financial is changing the way it pays commissions to its brokers when they sell routine investment products like mutual funds and variable annuities.
LPL Financial and its top Louisiana advisor split ways last month when received the advisor receiving a Wells Notice revealing an investigation by FINRA. Registration data showed that Garrett Ahrens and his firm, Ahrens Investment Partners, left LPL on August 18th.
Two large financial services firms have entered a heated dispute over the poaching of 60 brokers.
A former New York based broker-dealer, Arjent LLC and its UK-based affiliate, Arjent Limited, were on the edge of insolvency when the company Chairman and CEO Robert P. DePalo, along with Managing Director and co-owner Joshua B. Gladtke, made false representations to investors in an effort to keep both companies afloat and fund DePalo and Gladtke’s extravagant lifestyles.
FINRA ordered LPL Financial to pay $11.7 million in fines and restitution for the firm’s supervisory failures related to sales of complex products.
New Hampshire securities regulators fined LPL Financial $3.6 million for allegedly selling unsuitable real estate investments to elderly clients.
A former LPL Financial broker has been permanently barred by FINRA for allegedly borrowing $2.3 million from seven clients to build a vacation rental property in Hawaii.
FINRA handed out some hefty fines to financial firms in 2014. Click to see 10 of the biggest fines handed out this year, presented in order of the amount of the fine.
In a significant development for investors in GPB Capital Holdings, the private equity firm will move into receivership following a prolonged legal battle.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. with causing two special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) under its control to make misleading statements to investors before their initial public offerings (IPOs).
The SEC recently charged Ken Leech, former Co-CIO of Western Asset Management, with fraud.