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FINRA Fines Raymond James $17M

FINRA has fined two units of Raymond James Financial Inc. with a record $17 million in fines for rampant compliance failures in the brokerage’s anti-money laundering programs. The two units, Raymond James & Associates and Raymond James Financial Services, failed to implement systems to properly prevent, detect, and investigate suspicious activity for a number of […]

Former Broker Indicted On Fraud Charges

Claus Foerster, an ex-broker from South Carolina, was indicted by a grand jury for bilking customers out of $2.8 million during a fourteen-year span. Foerster operated his scheme from 2000 to 2014 while working as a financial advisor at Smith Barney & Co., Morgan Keegan & Co. and Raymond James Financial Inc., according to an […]