Finra Warns B-Ds On Hiring Brokers With Spotty Records Living Large
January 22, 2018 By Tracey Longo, Financial Advisor High-risk reps are finding it much harder to find a job these days, as Finra tightens the proverbial screws on firms that employ brokers with regulatory red flags. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has even begun calling firms that hire “high-risk” brokers to ask executives for explicit justifications for the hires. The threat made to firms, no longer even thinly disguised, is that hiring risky brokers will result in more frequent and far more rigorous Finra examinations for the B-D. The scrutiny is making it far tougher for any but the most profitable brokers to find a new firm if their regulatory record and background check puts them in Finra’s high-risk program hairs. If a firm runs the regulatory gauntlet and brings on a high-risk broker anyway,...