UBS Securities fined $2.5m after supervisory failures and Regulation SHO violations

Violations of Rule 204 of Reg SHO and failure to identify red flags lead to FINRA fine.

FINRA has fined UBS Securities LLC (UBS) $2.5m for violating Regulation SHO (Reg SHO) and supervisory failures during a nine-year period.

FINRA found that from 2009 to 2018, UBS failed to close out approximately 5,300 failure-to-deliver positions in a timely manner, and routed or executed over 73,000 short sales in

Some of UBS’s violations

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