Securities Service Network Clients Suggest Peter Holler Sold Bad Woodbridge Notes Investor Alert! The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) reports troubling allegations of sales practice violations by securities broker Peter Holler [CRD# 838897, Bristol, Tennessee]. Evidently, from 2001 and 2017, he worked for Securities Service Network between, who disaffiliated with him for concealing information about […]

UBS Broker Teresa Bravo Allegedly Recommends Bad Investments Investor Alert! The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) reports troubling allegations of sales practice violations by UBS Financial Services Inc. broker Teresa Bravo [CRD#: 1575928, San Juan, Puerto Rico]. Apparently, at least 27 clients disputed the sales practices of the securities broker. Altogether, these disclosures indicate that […]

MARIONDY FERNANDEZ Sell You Bad Bonds? The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) reports troubling allegations against prior Santander Securities broker Mariondy Fernandez (CRD#: 2391134, Dorchester, Massachusetts). Namely, the securities broker, who worked for Santander Securities from 2005 to 2016, discloses that 32 clients took issue with his sales practices. Here’s a summary of some recent […]

Customers File Suit Against Popular Securities For Unsuitable Trading Arturo Miguel Valldejuly Sastre (CRD# 2091688, San Juan, Puerto Rico) has been a financial consultant of Popular Securities LLC since May 21, 1997. Sastre disclosed on Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) BrokerCheck that his activities have given rise to a pending customer-initiated investment-related arbitration dated July […]

Soreide Law Group has recently been contacted by investors who purchased: iPath S&P 500 VIX ST Futuresâ„¢ ETN (VXX) through broker, TIMOTHY VINCENT LONGO CRD#: 3059691 VXX’s 52 Week Range 13.78 - 71.48 Today it is trading around 13.80 YTD Return  -41.16%   Soreide Law Group is investigating Timothy Longo’s selling of VXX to his […]

Soreide Law Group (888-760-6552) obtained the following information on FINRA’s website under, “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, January 2017.” Kevin Lawrence Barbalace (CRD #4456476, Baltimore, Maryland) was assessed a deferred fine of $5,000 and suspended by FINRA for three months for allegedly making unsuitable investment recommendations to a client, and exposing the client to a […]

FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority levied a total of $68 million in civil fines during 2012, according to statistics released by FINRA on Tuesday, January 8, 2013. This was slightly less than $71.9 million imposed by FINRA in 2011. The high-profile cases against large brokerages accounted for about one-third of total fines in 2012. […]

Alice Hale Everett (CRD #1867376, Registered Representative, Hialeah, Florida) was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Without admitting or denying the allegations by FINRA, Alice Everett consented to the described sanction and to the entry of findings that she failed to respond to FINRA requests for information regarding a possible private […]