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Ceros Financial fined for lacking supervision over personal email for business use

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FINRA ruling notable due to inclusion of Identity Theft Red Flags Rule.

Ceros Financial Services, a brokerage platform and consultative partner to an investment management firm, was censured and fined by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) on January 31 for what the regulator said was a failure to reasonably supervise and retain the use of personal email for business-related communications.

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