SunTrust Investment Services (STIS), the investment services subsidiary of SunTrust Banks, an American bank holding company, has agreed to pay a penalty of more than $1.1 million to settle the SEC’s charges that it “collected more than $1.1 million in avoidable fees from clients by improperly recommending more expensive share classes of various mutual funds… Read More >>
U.S. Fights Back Against Iranian Hackers
The threat of cyberattacks was prominent again in the news last week as the Department of Justice via the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed grand jury indictments against seven hackers based in Iran charged with running coordinated cyber-attacks on U.S. financial services firms and securities exchanges. In fact, Justice… Read More >>
