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• FINRA Fines MetLife Securities and Affiliates $1.2 Million for Email Supervision Failures

  11.18.09

• FINRA Wins Okay for Major Expansion of BrokerCheck, Will Permanently Disclose Disciplinary Actions Against Former Brokers

  11.17.09

• FINRA Chairman and CEO Rick Ketchum appears on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.”

  10.14.09

• FINRA Bars Former New York Broker for Defrauding Elderly Investor of More Than $500,000

  10.8.09

• FINRA Panel Bars New Jersey Broker for Misappropriating Funds From 97-Year-Old Widow's Charitable Foundation

  9.15.09