On January 17, 2014, WealthManagement.com ran Patrick Mahoney’s editorial, Surprise! How Did Forgotten, Minor Complaints Abruptly Appear on BrokerCheck, as part of his periodic column, The Legal Rep. A link to the article is available HERE. In 2010, FINRA amended Rule 8312 to require information concerning minor historic customer complaints be added to BrokerCheck records. Customer complaints that […]
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On December 11, 2013, WealthManagement.com ran Patrick Mahoney’s latest editorial, FINRA’S Proposed Changes to the Broker Expungement Process, as part of his periodic column, The Legal Rep. A link to the article is available HERE. The article’s content is available below: In April 2012, FINRA released Regulatory Notice 12-18, which features FINRA’s proposed overhaul of […]
On November 22, 2013, WealthManagement.com ran Patrick Mahoney’s editorial Petty Crimes on Broker Records – Can they be Expunged?. A link to the article is available HERE. The article’s content is available below: FINRA rules require brokers to make extensive and often intrusive disclosures (vis-à-vis a broker’s Central Registration Depository (“CRD”) record) concerning their work and disciplinary […]
On August 19, 2013, InvestmentNews magazine ran an Op-Ed concerning broker expungement authored by Patrick Mahoney. The article is available HERE and a preview of it is below.
Since FINRA implemented FINRA Rule 2111 (aptly named, the “Suitability Rule”) in July 2012, broker-dealers have been scrambling to update their internal systems and educate their brokers to prepare for the rigors of the rule change. Indeed, the Suitability Rule creates a totally ambiguous (and borderline impossible) standard that brokers are expected to meet before he […]
