A recent FINRA Award serves as a warning to brokerages and brokers that they must timely process customer paperwork. The broker for Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. failed to timely change the customer’s beneficiary on an annuity. The customer hired a securities arbitration attorney and filed a claim for damages of $100,000. After a four-day arbitration in Honolulu the Panel of three arbitrators issued an Award of $90,000 payable by Stifel and the broker. See Case Number 16-01680.
Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. has been repeatedly fined by regulators and sanctioned for failing to properly supervise its brokers. In 2018 FINRA issued a $300,000 fine against Stifel because the firm “failed to supervise the agent’s books and records.”
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