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Terminated $2.5 billion Merrill Lynch team plans to fight back

InvestmentNews

Original Story An elite private banking duo formerly with Bank of America Merrill Lynch is considering legal action against the firm after being terminated last month, according to an attorney for the team. “We believe that Merrill Lynch acted inappropriately and we look forward to testing the actions of Merrill lynch,” said Thomas Lewis of Stevens […]

Former executives of defunct IBD hit with $1.05 million arbitration award

InvestmentNews

Three brokerage executives who formerly worked at a now-defunct midsize independent broker-dealer were ordered by a three-person arbitration panel to pay $1.05 million, plus interest, to a family that had invested in high risk private placements that turned out to be Ponzi schemes. The complaint has been an albatross around the necks of the three […]

Former Executives Liable for Brokerage’s Bad Bets

Wall Street Journal

A securities arbitration panel is holding the senior executives of a defunct brokerage firm personally liable for money-losing bets made by its brokers. A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel last week ordered the top three officials of Allied Beacon Partners Inc. of Richmond, Va., to pay about $2.3 million to an Illinois restaurateur family. […]

Arbitration head at Wall St. watchdog to retire

Reuters

The long-time head of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s arbitration unit will retire, the Wall Street watchdog said on Wednesday. Linda Fienberg, who joined FINRA’s predecessor organization, the National Association of Securities Dealers, in 1996, will step down from her post at the end of November, according to a statement from FINRA. A successor has […]

Film entrepreneur draws mixed reviews

Los Angeles Times

Wade Bradley sells the Hollywood dream. But unlike the stories on screen, the ending isn’t always happy, some of his investors claim. Bradley’s Media Society Inc. solicits wealthy people to invest in a slate of independent films that it produces and distributes through a subsidiary, with the minimum investment set at $150,000. If the movies […]