FINRA Bars America Northcoast's Christopher Barone Soreide Law Group wants you to be aware that securities broker Christopher Richard Barone (CRD#: 2032268, Houston, Texas) – the CEO and COO of America Northcoast Securities – is disqualified from being a FINRA broker effective January 23, 2020. Notably, FINRA barred Barone for misrepresenting his supervision of trade […]

Soreide Law Group, a Securities Arbitration Law Firm, (888) 760-6552, obtained the following information on FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, July, 2013.” Bishop, Rosen & Co., Inc. (CRD #1248, New York, New York) was censured, fined $32,500, ordered to pay $7,613.14, plus interest, in restitution to customers, and required to revise its […]

The following information is from FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary Actions, April, 2012:”   Banc of America Investment Services, Inc. dba Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (CRD #7691, New York, New York)  submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent in which the firm was censured and fined $55,000. The firm has already paid […]

In an article from InvestmentNews.com, we learn that enforcement actions and fines by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., or Finra,  jumped sharply in 2011, with the latter rising to $68 million, from $45 million in 2010, a new study shows. Much of that surge came from penalties for improper advertising. Finra filed 1,488 disciplinary […]

In an article for InvestmentNews.com, on February 1st, 2012, Mark Schoeff Jr. writes that in a market defined by low interest rates, investors are searching for higher returns. But brokers better be careful how they try to deliver those results, according to their primary regulator. In a 16 page letter posted on its website, the Financial Industry […]