Benjamin Edwards In The News

The Daily Beast
If you were looking for reasons why members of Congress trading stocks can be a bad look, Rep. Doug Lamborn’s curious, aggressive trading style is a case-study in questionable behavior.
Investment News
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. included a section about Reg BI compliance in its annual report on its examination program. The broker-dealer self-regulator& outlined on pages 26-27 its findings from Reg BI exams, most of which involved shortcomings like brokerages not acting in their customers’ best interests and failing to mitigate conflicts of interest.
Wealth Management
The Securities and Exchange Commission settled charges with six investment advisory firms and six broker/dealers, alleging they did not deliver their Form Customer Relationship Summaries to clients on time; some also didn’t include information required by the SEC, the regulator said.
Forbes
Crypto businesses are worried about SEC’s recent plans to expand oversight to digital assets, which might currently trade outside its supervision.
Yahoo!
“By taking away this sort of activity, you would remove the fear that members of Congress will introduce particular pieces of legislation or oppose them for some personal financial concern,” says Ben Edwards, an expert on securities law and professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV.
Daily Beast
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene invested in Treasury bills right around a time of uncertainty about the debt ceiling—uncertainty that Greene helped foment. The investment paid off.
Yahoo!
Last September, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for a shutdown to stop government spending. Four days later, she lent the government money.
ThinkAdvisor
Last week’s unprecedented victory for an investor in his Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration dispute with Robinhood was achieved, at least in part, by having lawyers experienced with securities cases representing him and the decision to claim the firm was guilty of “negligent liquidity management,” according to a legal expert and one of the attorneys who represented Batista.