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Financial Misconduct, Ethical Theory, And Regulatory Ethics— Promoting Accountability, P. M. Vasudev Apr 2016

Financial Misconduct, Ethical Theory, And Regulatory Ethics— Promoting Accountability, P. M. Vasudev

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

This paper examines developments in the financial sector and identifies a role for regulatory ethics in promoting integrity and accountability. In this effort, the paper also explores theoretical perspectives in ethics and how they can shape business behavior. Specifically, the article proposes corporate codes of ethics, a mandatory requirement under the New York Stock Exchange Listing Rules, as instruments to promote morality in corporate conduct. Ethics codes, which are internally generated, must be tailored to reflect the experience and made more effective. They can be amplified to specify standards to govern the fiduciary duty of care applicable to executives, personal …


Curbing Broker-Dealers' Abusive Sales Practices: Does Professor Jensen's Integrity Framework Offer A Better Approach?, Barbara Black Jan 2013

Curbing Broker-Dealers' Abusive Sales Practices: Does Professor Jensen's Integrity Framework Offer A Better Approach?, Barbara Black

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Retail investors, particularly senior citizens, need competent and careful investment advice more than ever before. Many must rely on the services provided by investment advice providers, including broker-dealers. Regulators have sounded the alarm about sales of risky, complex products to retail customers in search of better returns, especially senior citizens and retirees. Both the SEC and FINRA have identified abusive broker-dealer sales practices as priorities in their examinations of broker-dealers and have brought numerous enforcement actions against broker-dealers for sales practices that harm retail investors. These enforcement actions frequently allege both failures of the firms’ due diligence processes to assure …


Attorneys As Debt Relief Agencies: Constitutional Considerations, Marisa Terranova Jan 2008

Attorneys As Debt Relief Agencies: Constitutional Considerations, Marisa Terranova

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.


The Sec's Regulation Fd, Richard L. Anderson, David Becker, Harvey L. Goldschmid, Eric D. Roiter, Susan E. Wolf, Alex Zisson, Jill E. Fisch Jan 2001

The Sec's Regulation Fd, Richard L. Anderson, David Becker, Harvey L. Goldschmid, Eric D. Roiter, Susan E. Wolf, Alex Zisson, Jill E. Fisch

Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law

No abstract provided.