June 15 is recognized as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. It was initiated by The International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and is recognized by the United Nations. Elder abuse is defined as any act or neglect where there is an expectation of trust, which causes harm to…
What might have been a coincidental system glitch of an apparent freeze of E*Trade’s trading platform on May 13, 2024 following Keith Gill’s reappearance on social media, may have been intentional. Read more about the May 13 event, here. The Wall Street Journal reported on June 3, 2024, about internal…
Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI), which was instituted in June 2020, dramatically changed the relationship between broker-dealers and retail investors. Prior to Reg BI, broker-dealers owed a duty to investors to only recommend securities that the broker-dealer believed to be “suitable” for a particular investor based on such investor’s investment…
In March 2024, Evershed Sutherland (US) LLP released its annual report (the Report) detailing disciplinary and enforcement actions initiated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) during the 2023 year. The Report outlines how FINRA seemingly stepped up its investigatory efforts in 2023, levying $89 million in fines against member…
On May 13, 2024, E*Trade’s trading platform was down at market open, which caused its customers to be unable to sign in, halting their ability to buy or sell securities. Many retail investors took social media by storm about the event. If you were locked out of your online brokerage…
On March 18, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) announced that it had settled charges against two registered investment advisers (RIAs) related to false and misleading representations about each RIA’s alleged use of artificial intelligence (AI) in effecting financial services, conduct which the SEC coined as “AI Washing.”…
On May 6, 2024, Robinhood announced that its crypto unit (Robinhood Crypto) received a Wells Notice from the SEC on May 4, 2024. According to MarketWatch, Robinhood’s stock price dropped more than 9% following the public disclosure of the Wells Notice. Robinhood further disclosed that the Wells Notice was related…
Did you notice electronic funds transferred out of your bank account? Did you authorize these transfers? If your answers are yes and no, respectively, you need to reach out to an Unauthorized Electronic Funds Transfers lawyer in New York, like the lawyers at Malecki Law, to review your circumstances. A…
On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, Malecki Law’s Jenice L. Malecki, Esq., will participate in a virtual panel organized by the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). This is a joint effort by the NYSBA’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section’s Securities Arbitration Committee and the Dispute Resolution Sections’ Securities Disputes Committee.…
On January 10, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved eleven applications for the first ever Bitcoin Spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which have been publicly listed and subsequently trading in the secondary market since their approval. This was the first time that the marketplace had seen an attempt to…