January 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Morgan Stanley pays $13 million penalty for overbilling clients and violating custody rule

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney unit of global investment bank Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) has agreed to pay a $13 million penalty to settle charges that it overbilled investment advisory clients due to coding and other billing system errors. The firm also violated the custody rule pertaining…

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