BrokeAndBroker.com Blog by Bill Singer Esq WEEK IN REVIEW

October 9, 2021

http://www.brokeandbroker.com/6097/finra-glendale/
Today's BrokeAndBroker.com Blog presents a difficult scenario. Publisher Bill Singer offers rare and high praise for the efforts of a FINRA Office of Hearing Officers Hearing Panel and of the National Adjudicatory Council. The byproduct of those bodies' deliberations yielded two comprehensive Decisions of the highest caliber. Unfortunately, FINRA's Chief Hearing Officer stayed the proceedings after information had purportedly come to her attention and eventually compelled the hiring of outside counsel to conduct a review. Sadly, FINRA's lack of transparency about the underlying nature of the troubling information mars the proceedings. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

http://www.brokeandbroker.com/6096/congress-gensler/
READ the FULL-TEXT of SEC Chair Gensler's Published Testimony

http://www.brokeandbroker.com/6086/finra-oho-nac/
FINRA's NAC affirmed an OHO Decision's findings that Respondent had engaged in undisclosed PSTs, made false statements to his employer, and willfully caused the employer to file a misleading initial Form U4 and four misleading amendments. The NAC affirmed all OHO sanctions but eliminated the heightened supervision requirement.