The Florida-based Soreide Law Group obtained this summation of information from FINRA's Website "Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions February 2015." NEWBRIDGE SECURITIES CORPORATION (CRD #104065, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) was censured, fined $138,000 and required to revise its WSPs for allegedly selling (buying) corporate bonds to (from) customers, and failed to sell (buy) such bonds at […]

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 […]

  BATS Trading, Inc. (CRD #136734, Lenexa, Kansas)   Have submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent in which the firm was censured and fined $307,500. Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the described sanctions and to the entry of findings that it executed numerous short sale transactions on its […]