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In May 2018, LPL Financial LLC settled with and agreed to pay the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) as much as $26 million plus 3% simple interest per year to repurchase securities from investors that were held in LPL accounts determined to have been unregistered, non-exempt equity or fixed-income securities sold since Oct. 1, […]

Erez Law is investigating claims regarding UBS’s V10 Enhanced FX Carry Strategy (“V10”), “in which the switch from long to short and back is systematically driven by a trading algorithm,” according to UBS’ website. When the European debt crisis hit in mid-2010, however, the index to which the notes were tied lost 26 percent in […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced charges against New York City-based brokerage firm VCAP Securities and its CEO, Brett Thomas Graham, for fraudulently deceiving other market participants while conducting auctions to liquidate collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). VCAP and Graham together agreed to pay almost $1.5 million to settle the SEC’s charges, and Graham is […]

Erez Law and Aldarondo & Lopez Bras recently filed a claim against UBS Financial Services, Inc. and UBS Financial Services Inc. of Puerto Rico (“UBS”) on behalf of a 63-year-old man and his 62-year-old wife for more than $850,000 in losses related to UBS/UBS-PR branded Puerto Rico Funds and Puerto Rico bonds. Aldarondo & Lopez […]

Mark Manuel, who was alleged to have been a promoter of the schemes known as MPire and MRT, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for fraud, in an unrelated scheme known as Eden Gifted Products. Mark Manuel was one of three defendants sentenced to prison in July, 2014. United States Attorney Bill Nettles […]

Erez Law is investigating claims regarding Aaron Robert Parmether (CRD #2546369, Fort Lauderdale, FL), also known as Ron Parmether. Parmether recently submitted an AWC in which he was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. See FINRA Case #2011030405801. Parmether was associated with Wells Fargo Advisors LLC from October 2011 until his […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved the implementation of FINRa Rule 2081, which prohibits brokers from making settlements of customer disputes contingent on the claimant’s agreement not to oppose expungement of the dispute from the brokers’ public record. Once information is expunged from the CRD system, it is permanently deleted and becomes unavailable to […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged three Morgan Stanley entities with misleading investors in a two residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) securitizations that the firms underwrote, sponsored, and issued. In anticipation of the charges, Morgan Stanley submitted an offer of settlement, which the SEC accepted, wherein Morgan Stanley would pay $275 million to be returned […]

In a recent speech, Daniel Gallagher, a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission stated that a large number investment advisers may be violating securities law and committing other misconduct without consequence because the Securities and Exchange Commission does not examine them as closely as it does brokers, reported Investment News. “In reality, there are […]

FINRA recently fined Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC (“MSSB”), $5 million for supervisory failures related to initial public offerings between February 16, 2012 and May 1, 2013. During this time, MSSB sold shares to retail customers in 83 IPOs, including Facebook and Yelp, without having adequate procedures and training to ensure that its sales staff […]