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By Kyle Brasseur2023-11-28T19:23:00
A broker-dealer subsidiary of TD Bank agreed to pay a $600,000 penalty levied by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for allegedly failing to review millions of employee emails as required by the self-regulatory organization’s rules.
TD Private Client Wealth failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system reasonably designed to achieve compliance with its obligation to review correspondence and internal communications, said FINRA in its disciplinary action published Monday.
From February 2013 through July 2022, TD Private Client Wealth’s written procedures failed to establish steps to add the email accounts of new employees to the review queue, according to FINRA. As a result, nearly 50 percent of new employees were not placed into the queue within five days of their hiring, and some employees went years without being added.
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2024-05-03T16:45:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada fined TD Bank nearly CAD$9.2 million (U.S. $6.7 million) for failing to comply with its anti-money laundering regulations.
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TD Bank said it set aside $450 million to settle regulatory and law enforcement investigations, including by the Department of Justice, into its anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act programs.
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Independent broker-dealer LPL Financial agreed to pay more than $6 million as part of a settlement with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority addressing alleged supervision failures regarding direct business transactions and the suitability of switch transactions.
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Fund management company WisdomTree will pay $4 million to settle allegations by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it improperly invested in fossil fuel and tobacco companies in environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds despite promising to avoid them.
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A Vietnamese alcohol company has agreed to pay $860,000 to settle allegations by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that its business with North Korea involved U.S. financial institutions.
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The other shoe finally dropped for Raytheon and parent company RTX, as two U.S. regulators announced nearly $1 bilion in penalties to settle defective pricing in defense contracts, false claims related to inflated prices on government contracts, and bribes paid to government officials in Qatar that violated the FCPA.
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