FINRA disciplinary action update 2025/41

Disciplinary decisions issued November 1 – 7, 2025.

First Trust Portfolios censured and fined for alleged compliance failings connected to non-cash compensation

Some wholesalers employed by the firm:

  • regularly provided gifts to client firm representatives that significantly exceeded the $100 per-person annual limit;
  • provided meals and entertainment to some client firm representatives that were “so frequent and expensive as
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