Legal

The online trading firm has agreed to settle the Securities and Exchange Commission fines, related to 10 violations, including failures to report suspicious activity in a timely manner, implement adequate identity theft protections and provide “blue sheet data” to the SEC.

A federal judge has dismissed – for the second time – a lawsuit against Bechtel Global that alleged the $5.7 billion plan's default managed account investment led to excessive fees and subpar returns, arguing that a target date fund would have been a better alternative.

Last week, BlackRock dropped out of the United Nations-backed climate change investing initiative, which was followed by NZAM suspending its activities on Monday because of “recent developments … in investors’ respective jurisdictions,” according to its website.

A federal judge in Texas ruled that American Airlines violated its ERISA duties by not focusing “on the best financial benefit” for its 401(k) plan, in the biggest victory yet in a case involving ESG investing.

The world’s largest asset manager, with more than $10 trillion in assets under management, has dropped out of the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, following the recent withdrawals of Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and other megabanks.

State securities regulators discovered gaps in the firm’s supervisory process, when customers moved from brokerage to advisory accounts and the financial services firm implemented new policies in response to the now-defunct fiduciary rule.