FINRA Fines Scottrade $2.6 Million for Failures in Electronic Records Retention

FINRA Fines Scottrade $2.6 Million for Failures in Electronic Records Retention

FINRA fined Scottrade, Inc. $2.6 million for failing to retain a large number of securities-related electronic records in the required format, and for failing to retain certain categories of outgoing emails. Scottrade also did not have a reasonable supervisory system in place to achieve compliance with certain Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and FINRA books and records rules, which contributed to its record-retention failures.

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