Review: FINRA Needs Reform After Madoff, Stanford

Courtesy Topix - Business News  Sat, 10/03/2009 - 04:50

The brokerage industry's self-policing body must make reforms to protect investors after its inspections failed to uncover the massive Ponzi scheme run by Bernard Madoff and the alleged fraud by R.

Allen Stanford, according to a special review.


 

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