By 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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Tom Hardin AKA “Tipper X” went from a young trader with his whole career ahead of him to an inside trader who got caught, acted as a Federal Bureau of Investigation informant for two years, and pleaded guilty to a felony.
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SoFi’s brokerage unit will pay a $1.1 million fine to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for fraud detection weaknesses that allowed thieves to create SoFi Money accounts using fake or stolen identities.
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