Producers selling annuities in New York face one significant change after the state’s best-interest standard took effect in August: training. Read to learn how to comply with the training requirement. Read More

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has created a Regulation Best Interest webpage to help broker-dealers comply with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule, and is urging broker-dealers to submit questions to the securities regulator about Reg BI and the agency’s customer relationship summary, Form CRS, to IABDQuestions@sec.gov. Read More

FINRA is conducting a retrospective review to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of its rules and administrative processes that help protect senior investors from financial exploitation. Read More

Listen, learn and transform the ideas of our clients into truly superior products and services. That’s the goal we set when we launched the User Advisory Group webinar series at the start of 2019, and that’s the mantra we’ve followed to get our system to where it is today. Read More

To kick off 2019, we launched a new Quest CE User Advisory Group intending to better communicate with our client network, gather valuable feedback around our products and make improvements along the way. Read More

The Securities Industry/Regulatory Council on Continuing Education (Council) publishes the Firm Element Advisory (FEA) to highlight current regulatory and sales practice topics for possible inclusion in Firm Element training plans. Read More

Have you ever rolled out your annual compliance meeting and when it was all over and done with you said to yourself . . .  “I wish that went better”? Never fear.  The goal of this article is to give you specific, actionable ways to prepare for the delivery of your best annual compliance meeting ever. Read More

Have you ever been curious about which of our courses are most popular among firms today? In this article, we pull back the curtain by featuring our top 10 most delivered Firm Element courses in 2019, thus far. Read More

Ready or not – here it comes. On June 5, 2019, the SEC held a meeting which resulted in the adoption of the long-debated proposal called Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI). Read More

KPMG has agreed to pay a $50 million penalty and hire an independent consultant to assess the firm's ethics and integrity controls as well as its compliance. Read More