The White Law Group is investigating securities fraud claims on behalf of investors involving CIT InterNotes. The sale of CIT InterNotes to individual retail clients resulted from institutional investors growing reluctance to lend to CIT Group Inc. as they became increasingly aware of CIT’s deteriorating financial condition. By selling to individual retail clients, CIT was [...]
The White Law Group is investigating securities fraud claims on behalf of investors with investment losses in Citigroup’s ASTA and MAT funds. Citigroup began offering the ASTA and MAT funds in 2002 to Smith Barney brokerage clients and private bank customers with more than $5 million in liquid assets. Essentially these funds operated by borrowing [...]
The White Law Group, LLC is a national securities fraud, securities arbitration, investor protection, and securities regulation/compliance law firm with offices in Chicago, Illinois and Boca Raton, Florida. The firm is dedicated to assisting investors who have suffered investment losses as a result of their financial advisor or broker-dealers’ fraud or negligence. We are currently [...]
The White Law Group is investigating the appropriateness of structured product investments sold by various broker-dealers (including Citigroup’s ELKS structured product), to retail investors. Structured products are complicated investments that are only appropriate for sophisticated or institutional investors. Structured products are designed to facilitate highly customized risk-return objectives by taking a traditional security, such as [...]
FINRA recently announced that Gary Robert Stremel, formerly of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. in Houston, Texas, has been barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Without admitting or denying the findings, Stremel consented to the entry of findings that he exercised discretion in a customer’s account without the customer’s written authorization or [...]
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently announced that it has fined Citigroup Global Markets, UBS Securities and Deutsche Bank Securities a total of $425,000 — and ordered the firms to make payments to customers that could total $420,000 — in connection with the firms’ failure to adequately supervise communications with their customers in the [...]
Broker Targeted Accounts of Elderly and Vulnerable Clients; Citigroup Has Paid Restitution to Customers The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently announced that it has barred Tamara Lanz Moon of Redwood City , CA , from the securities industry for wrongfully taking over $850,000 in funds from at least 22 customers, including her own father. [...]