Reuters
Larry Hagman, the actor who played the villainous J.R. Ewing in the 1980s TV show “Dallas,” has won his case alleging that he was victimized by Citigroup Inc., with the bank ordered to pay more than $11 million in damages. The total award includes $10 million in punitive damages that Citi must pay to charities […]
Reuters
Even as UBS launches a global campaign to revive its banged-up brand, the Swiss bank’s U.S. brokerage faces another costly and embarrassing wave of regulatory actions. Investor lawyers for the past year have been taking UBS to task for selling Lehman Brothers debt with such reassuring names as “100 percent principal-protected notes” that promised robust […]
Dow Jones
Raymond James & Associates, Inc. and one of its brokers must buy back $925,000 in auction-rate securities from a Texas-based couple, a securities arbitration panel has ruled. Rex and Sherese Glendenning, of the Celina area in Texas, originally sought $1.4 million in the case they filed in February 2009, against Raymond James & Associates, a […]
Bloomberg
Citigroup Inc. was ordered by brokerage-industry arbitrators to pay more than $1 million to three investors in its municipal-bond funds. The clients had accused the New York-based bank’s global markets unit of breaching fiduciary duty and other misconduct tied to their investments in funds known as MAT Five and MAT Three, according to an Aug. […]
Wall Street Journal
Two years after the credit-market meltdown hit a once-booming sector of the municipal-bond market, Wall Street brokerage firms are being ordered to pay millions to investors who lost big on what some thought were low-risk investments. This month, an investor arbitration panel awarded a California family $2.1 million, the full amount of its losses on […]