Regulators Plan Legal Actions Over Improper Sales of ETFs and ETNs

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced plans to file enforcement actions against certain brokerages in connection with unsuitable sales of leveraged and inverse leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as well as for failure to train their brokers who sell them (see Reuters article by Suzanne Barlyn and Jessica Toonkel entitled “FINRA to bring cases over leveraged, inverse ETFs”). The article cites FINRA enforcement chief Bradley Bennett as the source of this information, and notes that he refused to identify the broker-dealers that FINRA plans to sue.