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Top Compliance Challenges Financial Advisors Face

BlueMind

For example, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States or The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) in Canada. Unethical investment banking and insurance practices that handed all the risk to the investors resulted in one of the biggest financial crises after the Great Depression.

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Should the CFP Board police financial advisor “bad apples”? The debate continues! (Part Two)

Sara Grillo

For those of you who are new to my blog, my name is Sara. And that’s actually not true, it’s actually the term financial planner is specifically regulated by the SEC, SEC interpretive release 1092, the applicability of the Advisors Act to financial planners clearly states that. JR will be on the “against” team.

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CDPQ Rocked by Major Indian Bribery Scheme

Pension Pulse

The most senior of those former officials, Cyril Cabanes, who was in charge of the Caisse’s infrastructure investments in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions at the time of the alleged offences, has also been charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.