Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. (CRD #39543, Fairfield, Iowa) was censured and fined $250,000 for allegedly failing to identify and apply “rollover” and exchange discounts to certain clients with eligible purchases of unit investment trusts (UIT), which resulted in those clients paying $423,774.27 in excessive sales charges. FINRA's findings stated that Cambridge Investment Research has paid […]

The following summation of information was obtained by Soreide Law Group (888-760-6552) from FINRA's Website under "Disciplinary and Other Actions April 2015." EDI Financial, Inc. (CRD #15699, Irving, Texas) was censured and fined $100,000 by FINRA for allegedly failing to adopt and implement supervisory systems and procedures reasonably designed to achieve compliance with EDI Financial’s […]

Ascendiant Capital Markets, LLC (CRD #152912, Irvine, California) was censured and fined $52,500 by FINRA for allegedly failing to record all terms and conditions on a customer order record and document time-in- force; failed to record all terms and conditions on a customer order record and document the correct order receipt time; and failed to […]

Essex Securities LLC (CRD #46605, Topsfield, Massachusetts) was censured, fined $20,000, ordered to pay $6,009.70, plus interest, in restitution to clients and required to review its supervisory systems and WSPs regarding the sale of mutual funds for compliance with FINRA rules and the federal securities laws and regulations. FINRA imposed a lower fine in this […]

Bloomberg Tradebook LLC (CRD #40881, New York, New York) was censured, fined $140,000 and required to revise its written supervisory procedures (WSPs) by FINRA. Allegedly, Bloomberg Tradebook LLC executed short sale and short sale exempt transactions, and failed to report each of these transactions to the FINRA/NASDAQ Trade Reporting Facility (FNTRF) with a short sale […]