It has been approximately one (1) month since the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has launched a targeted review of broker-dealer activity in small-capitalization offerings involving ...

Senior executives with small broker-dealers, or those with 150 or fewer registered representative salespeople, have often expressed a common frustration with FINRA, the primary regulator for the ...

Ashford Securities, a Dallas-based broker-dealer that sold and distributed nontraded real estate investment trusts, is shutting down . According to its BrokerCheck profile, the Dallas-based Ashford ...

The National Association of Independent Broker/Dealers (NAIBD) is working to prevent proposed legislation in Congress from increasing the auditing costs of small independent broker/dealers. These ...

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is probing broker-dealer firms involved in taking small foreign companies public, the latest effort by a regulator to crack down on pump-and-dump schemes.

Broker-dealer earnings in the third quarter rose as much as 74% from a year ago, with nearly all firms reporting Q3 earnings growth near or higher than 19%. One BD did report a small loss, tied to one ...

As of 2024, the number of Commission-registered broker-dealers has declined by nearly 30% from 4,758 in 2010 to 3,341, signaling significant industry consolidation, according to a new report by the ...