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Securities Latest Updates

Secretary Galvin Settles With Five Independent Broker Dealers for Improper Sales of REITs - Returning Over $11 Million to Massachusetts Investors

Secretary Galvin Charges Malden Man In Affinity Fraud On Kenyan Community

Secretary Galvin Fines Deutsche Bank Securities $17.5 Million for Conflicts in Marketing Collateralized Debt Obligations

Secretary Galvin Raps Schwab for Arbitration Changes; Warns Investors to Monitor Amendments to Their Arbitration Agreements

Report on Massachusetts Investment Advisers’ Use of Mandatory Pre-Dispute Arbitration Clauses

Secretary Galvin Orders LPL Financial to Return $2 Million to Investor Victims

Secretary Galvin Fines Morgan Stanley $5 Million for Investment Banking’s Improper Influence Over Analysts in the Facebook IPO

Secretary Galvin Fines Citigroup Unit $2 Million for Research Analysts’ Improper Disclosures of Material Nonpublic Information Including the Facebook IPO

Secretary Galvin Charges Putnam Advisory With Fraud For Its Role In Two Mortgage-Backed CDOs

Secretary Galvin Charges Belmont Man In $10.4 Million Ponzi Scheme

Royal Bank of Canada Subsidiary agrees to $2.9 Million restitution to MA investors who purchased inverse leveraged exchage traded funds

Secretary Galvin Fines State Street Global Advisors $5 Million For Role In Mortgage-Backed CDO

Goldman Sachs Fined $10 Million; Halts The Huddles




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