FINRA orders Barclays unit to pay $700K over conflicts of interest
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Aaron Nicodemus2024-04-15T16:26:00
A Barclays unit agreed to pay $700,000 to settle allegations levied by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) that its research analysts violated conflict-of-interest rules and the firm failed to sufficiently supervise their trades.
Barclays Capital agreed to be censured and pay the fine in reaching settlement, according to a FINRA order issued Friday.
Barclays failed to identify and disclose 99 instances of its research analysts holding stock in a company in which they published a report and three instances of research analysts trading in their brokerage accounts in a manner inconsistent with published recommendations, FINRA alleged.
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