“Wells Fargo Advisors and Merrill Lynch offered bank deposit sweep programs, or BDSPs, as the only cash sweep option for most ...

Two Wells Fargo-affiliated investment advisers and Merrill Lynch agreed to pay $60 million, while LPL Financial agreed to pay ...

Two Wall Street titans are shelling out a combined $60 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly ...

Wells Fargo and Merrill Lynch will pay $35 million and $25 million, respectively, to settle allegations by the Securities and ...

In the enforcement actions announced Friday, the regulator said the two firms agreed to settle the charges without admitting ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday said a pair of Wells Fargo Advisory firms and Merrill Lynch have ...

Investment adviser units of Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of America Corp.’s Merrill shortchanged customers by funneling ...

Brokerage firms may seek to sweep cash into affiliated banks, often paying low interest rates. According to some reports, brokers could make 10 times more than their customers do on their cash.

Advisory clients’ uninvested dollars were automatically swept into bank accounts that paid paltry interest, but were profitable for the companies, the SEC said.

Merrill Lynch and two Wells Fargo advisory firms have agreed to pay a combined $60 million in civil penalties to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that they failed to pay advisory ...

Wells Fargo’s Q4 results were positive, but regulatory issues linger. Find out why WFC stock is fairly valued despite ...

Merrill Lynch and two Wells Fargo advisory firms have agreed to pay a combined $60 million in civil penalties to settle U.S.