Recent Posts in Promissory Notes Category
Posted on May 22, 2013 By Michael Edmiston
On May 21, 2013, FINRA chairman and CEO Richard Ketchum praised firms' overall improvement in increasing compliance with industry rules, but stated there is still work to be done. Specifically, ...
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Posted on Apr 28, 2013 By Michael Edmiston
FINRA suspended former Private Asset Group, Inc. principal Daryl Marc Holzberg of Tustin Ranch, California for failing to respond to several red flags indicating increased risks associated with ...
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Posted on Apr 23, 2013 By Michael Edmiston
FINRA barred former MML Investor Services, Inc. broker Benjamin Martin Feibish after discovering that Feibish had developed a scheme with the goal of misappropriating more than $5 million from an ...
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Posted on Apr 15, 2013 By Michael Edmiston
FINRA filed a cease-and-desist order against Success Trade Securities, accusing the firm and its CEO and President, Fuad Ahmed of fraud related to sales of notes totaling $18 million. The notes were ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2013 By Michael Edmiston
FINRA filed a cease-and-desist order against Success Trade Securities, accusing the firm and its CEO and President, Fuad Ahmed of fraud related to sales of notes totaling $18 million. The notes were ...
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Posted on Mar 24, 2013 By Michael Edmiston
FINRA has barred broker Michael Mendenhall of Denver, Colorado for allegedly providing false and misleading information to FINRA in connection with an investigation into whether Mendenhall had ...
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Posted on Mar 24, 2013 By Michael Edmiston
According to Nathaniel Popper of The New York Times, investment firm LPL Financial has ratcheted up a sequence of problems with multiple securities regulators LPL is not unique nor alone in its ...
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Posted on Mar 20, 2013 By Michael Edmiston
FINRA barred Jane Elizabeth O'Brien after she allegedly borrowed $3 million from clients without permission from and without the knowledge of either of her two employing firms, Citigroup Global ...
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Posted on Jan 16, 2013 By Michael Edmiston
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority suspended Doran Lynn Follis of Huntington Beach, California, through March 3, 2013 for allegedly failing to conduct adequate due diligence in regards to a ...
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Posted on Oct 12, 2012 By Michael Edmiston
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority suspended Ralph Thomas Gannett, most recently of Independent Financial Group, LLC, for effecting inappropriate sales of a private placement offering to ...
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Posted on Aug 13, 2012 By Michael Edmiston
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) suspended broker supervisor Douglas Brent Cartwright and fined him $5,000 for selling a promissory note to an investor outside the scope of his ...
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Posted on Jul 10, 2012 By Michael Edmiston
Broker-dealer Tony Thompson of Thompson National Properties LLC (TNP) temporarily suspended private placement interest payments, leaving hundreds of investors out in the cold until at least 2013. The ...
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