A survey from the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) asked state-registered small and mid-sized investment adviser firms how they use websites and technology, such as tablets ...

Increasingly, clients of CPA firms impose confidentiality agreements as a precondition to engaging the firm to perform professional services. These may appear in the form of a separate nondisclosure ...

Confidentiality is a key consideration in any commercial endeavour. To retain a competitive edge in the market, a business will often do its utmost to maintain the confidentiality of client ...

Client management platforms have become an essential part of an RIA’s tech stack as these tools make it easier to access and update customer information. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ...

Ameriprise Financial has filed a lawsuit against LPL Financial, accusing the broker/dealer of misusing private, confidential client information during advisor recruitment “in connection with its ...

Attorney-client privilege. Most people have heard of it, and most have a general idea it means. But what, exactly, is attorney-client privilege? What's its purpose? What does it cover? When does it ...

Customers rely on brokerages, advisors, accountants and even insurance agents to keep their information safe, secure and confidential. Well before the stay-at-home mandates of the pandemic, state ...

With cybercrime increasing at a high rate in recent years, advisors can't afford to overlook its impact on themselves and their clients. Cybercrime has increased by over 600% since the start of the ...

Businesses have mixed feelings about their financial data. They can't live with it, they can't live without it, and they don't always understand what all the data before them means. Despite this ...

Charles Schwab is taking one of its former reps to court, accusing him of being a “disloyal employee” who allegedly departed wielding trade secrets on thousands of Schwab clients. Schwab filed a ...