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Employment Litigation Roundup: February 2024

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Former HR Executive Sues Financial Services Company for Equal Pay Violations in New Jersey Federal Court - A former head of human resources sued a financial services company for allegedly underpaying her relative to her...more

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Codes of Arbitration Procedure: FINRA Announces Amendments

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On February 6, 2024, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) published Regulatory Notice 24-03, which announced certain amendments to the Codes of Arbitration Procedure (the Codes). Among those were changes to the...more

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SEC Adopts New Securities Lending Reporting Rule

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On October 13, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted new Rule 10c-1a (the “Securities Lending Rule”), requiring the reporting of certain securities lending transactions. Certain material terms of...more

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Working From Home? Stay Alert to Avoid Insider Trading or Tipping Liability!

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Even when surrounded by the ones we love, it is important to keep confidential information away from them. Others may not realize that they should not trade after overhearing interesting comments—or worse, they may try to...more

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FINRA Rule 8210

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I hope that you have had the chance to enjoy Jessica Hopper’s paean to Rule 8210 in her recent blog posted on FINRA’s website. Very disturbing, and for all the old reasons. First, once again, she starts by patting herself –...more

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FINRA’s Concerns About Maintaining Confidentiality Seem To Be Broadening

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I hope that, by now, everyone understands and appreciates just how freakishly sensitive the regulators are to misconduct involving the wrongful sharing of confidential information. If you don’t, however, FINRA was kind enough...more

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Fifth Circuit Affirms Confirmation of Arbitration Ruling in Favor of Ameriprise Financial

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The Fifth Circuit affirmed the confirmation of an arbitration ruling in favor of Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. In 2015, Ameriprise sought a temporary restraining order against Jeremy Walker, a former employee of an...more

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FINRA Issues Guidance on the Handling of Customers When a Broker Leaves a Firm

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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently issued some expectations/guidance to industry members on FINRA’s expectations when a broker leaves for another firm....more

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Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on Regulation S-K, Regulation NMS and Extraordinary Market Volatility,...

SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Adopts Rules to Modernize and Simplify Disclosure - The Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted final rules to modernize and simplify the disclosure requirements for public companies...more

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Webinar Recap! Protecting Confidential Information and Client Relationships in the Financial Services Industry

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In Seyfarth’s second installment in its 2019 Trade Secrets Webinar Series, Seyfarth attorneys J. Scott Humphrey and Marcus Mintz focused on trade secret and client relationship considerations in the banking and financial...more

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2018 Trade Secrets And Non-Competes Webinar Series Year In Review

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Throughout 2018, Seyfarth Shaw’s dedicated Trade Secrets, Computer Fraud & Non-Competes Practice Group hosted a series of CLE webinars that addressed significant issues facing clients today in this important and ever-changing...more

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SEC, FINRA and the DOL Take Aim at Confidentiality Provisions in Firm Agreements

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On October 24, 2016, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) released an alert examining whistleblower rule compliance and the use of...more

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FINRA fines Raymond James $500,000

Financial services firm Raymond James Financial Services Inc. (Raymond James) has agreed to settle an investigation by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for $500,000. The investigation stems from allegations...more

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Our Modern Markets: SEC Enforcement Focuses On Market Structure In Response To Rapidly-Changing Equity Markets

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On Monday, November 2, 2015, Andrew Ceresney, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, gave a speech at the SIFMA Compliance & Legal Society New York Regional Seminar in which he sought to address what he views as the...more

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This Week In Securities Litigation (Week ending August 14, 2015)

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A second insider trading action was brought by the Commission against a senior banking official based on the same take-over for which he was previously charged — but a different securities trading account is at the center of...more

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A Non-Insider Trading Case in the District of Massachusetts

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Insider trading prosecutions can be difficult. Because of the haphazard and tortuous growth of insider trading law itself, the prosecutions involve proving lots of different pesky elements. Fiduciary duties, materiality,...more

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FINRA Issues Guidance Notice on Confidentiality Provisions in Settlement Agreements and the Arbitration Discovery Process

In Regulatory Notice 14-40, FINRA reminds members that it is a violation of FINRA Rule 2010 (Standards of Commercial Honor and Principles of Trade) to incorporate into a settlement agreement a confidentiality provision...more

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How to Respond to SEC Inquiries Concerning Data Breach and Data Security Policies

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Every company, whether public or private, has exposure to potential data breach or theft of confidential information. When this occurs, various state and federal regulatory organizations have jurisdiction over ensuring that...more

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The SEC And A Dark Pool That Is Not Dark Enough

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High speed trading, dark pools and similar market structure issues have become hotly debated topics. Former CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton gave several speeches discussion the subjects and proposed that high speed traders be...more

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Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - November 1, 2013

In this issue: - FINRA Issues New Investor Alert on Closed-End Funds - CFTC Adopts Enhanced Customer Protection Rules - CFTC Adopts Rules Regarding the Protection of Collateral and Treatment of Securities...more

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