SEC fines UBS $10M over municipal bond offerings
By 
Jaclyn Jaeger2020-07-21T19:01:00
UBS Financial Services has agreed to pay more than $10 million to resolve SEC charges that it circumvented the priority given to retail investors in certain municipal bond offerings.
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