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Reuters
This is the case of a securities broker who spent nine years depositing his client’s dividend checks into his personal account before the situation caught up to him. For financial advisers, it’s a cautionary tale: If something doesn’t smell right, it will eventually draw attention. Richard Harvey Peress deposited 37 quarterly dividend checks totaling $11,460 […]
Wall Street Journal
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a Wall Street watchdog overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission, is considering tougher penalties for misconduct after criticism from an SEC official that its sanctions are too lenient. In the five years since the financial crisis, Finra, which is funded by the industry, didn’t discipline any Wall Street executives. […]
Reuters
It seems ironic that a federal agency with a longstanding mandate to protect investors would need a new advocate to do just that. Nonetheless, Rick Fleming, the first head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Advocate, is busy setting up shop, staffing a six-person office and setting priorities. The 2010 Dodd-Frank […]
Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
On January 8, 2010, FINRA’s Investor Education Foundation awarded Pepperdine University School of Law’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution a grant of $250,000 to establish a comprehensive clinical education program in investor advocacy. In 2010, Robert Uhl was appointed as the first Director and as an adjunct professor at the Pepperdine University School of Law […]
St. John’s Law Review
Following the Enron and WorldCom scandals in 2001, public outrage over the lack of executive accountability led to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 which required better public disclosure. Wall Street argued that this new disclosure standard would cause publicly traded companies to join foreign exchanges instead of United States based securities exchanges, and that this […]