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The regulator says the broker-dealer misused customer cash to generate profits for the firm and failed to safeguard customers.
The SEC reports that Merrill Lynch has admitted to illegally using billions of dollars of its customers’ money, on a weekly basis from 2009 until last year, to finance its own trades. The well-known brokerage, owned by Bank of America Corp., will pay a $415 million penalty and admits wrongdoing to settle charges that it...
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