Financial services firm Merriman Curhan Ford Group has appointed Howard Bernstein as chief compliance officer. His appointment is part of the firm’

s efforts to rebuild its compliance and regulatory functions by separating those functions from its legal department, CEO Peter Coleman said in a prepared statement.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...