{"id":5441,"date":"2013-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutionalinvestorsecuritiesblog.blawgcloud.com\/2013\/05\/lpl_financial_ordered_to_pay_7_1"},"modified":"2022-03-10T16:34:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T22:34:37","slug":"lpl-financial-ordered-to-pay-7-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/lpl-financial-ordered-to-pay-7-1\/","title":{"rendered":"LPL Financial Ordered to Pay $7.5M FINRA Fine Over E-Mail Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority says that LPL Financial LLC must pay a $7.5 million fine for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/failure-to-supervise.html\">inadequately supervising <\/a>more than 28 million business emails between 2007 and 2013. This is the largest fine the SRO has ever imposed over an e-mail case.<\/p>\n<p>According to FINRA, LPL\u2019s systems for overseeing and storing e-mails failed a minimum of 35 times. It contends that the firm did not succeed in fulfilling its duty to retain e-mails, supervise its representatives, and properly respond to requests by regulators. The SRO attributes these problems to the brokerage firm\u2019s failure to put enough resources toward updating its e-mail system as its business grew quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Among the e-mail failures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/lpl-financial-ordered-to-pay-7-1\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading LPL Financial Ordered to Pay $7.5M FINRA Fine Over E-Mail Failures\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority says that LPL Financial LLC must pay a $7.5 million fine for inadequately supervising more than 28 million business emails between 2007 and 2013. This is the largest fine the SRO has ever imposed over an e-mail case. 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