On June 26, 2013, FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., fined a Miami investment firm over one million dollars for allegedly charging excessive mark-ups and mark-downs on bond sales. StateTrust Investments Inc. was fined $1.045 million and was ordered to pay $353,319 in restitution to customers for charging unfair prices in 563 corporate-bond transactions […]

Patel v. Balchandani, FINRA ID # 11-00973 (Louisville, KY, 5/4/2012) - A FINRA Arbitration Panel awarded approximately $1 million, including $200,000 in punitive damages, to a pair of customers who alleged a churning scheme targeting Indian-Americans. The following is part of the "Case Summary" that was presented on FINRA's website: "Claimants asserted the following causes […]

On the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's website (FINRA) it was announced that it had fined Citi International Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc., $600,000 and ordered more than $648,000 in restitution and interest to more than 3,600 customers for charging excessive markups and markdowns on corporate and agency bond transactions, and for related supervisory violations. Executive […]