It has been nearly five years since the US Securities and Exchange Commission (‘SEC’ or ‘the Commission’) adopted Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) to enhance the standard of conduct applicable to broker-dealers when they make recommendations involving securities transactions or strategies to retail customers. For the first few years after the SEC adopted Reg BI, enforcement activity by the US regulators was modest.
Originally published in the Journal of Financial Compliance.
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