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

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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