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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Stephens Inc.
Penalty: $900,000
Year: 2016
Date: May 11, 2016
Offense Group: financial offenses
Primary Offense: investor protection violation
Secondary Offense: financial institution supervision failures
Violation Description: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority censured Stephens Inc., of Little Rock, Arkansas, and fined the firm $900,000 for inadequately supervising firm-wide internal flash emails sent by its research analysts to convey information about companies and industries the firm covered. These failures created the risk that the flash emails could potentially include material nonpublic information that might be misused by sales and trading personnel.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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