March 2017-New York
According to publicly available records filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, Aegis Capital Corporation is being investigated by three regulatory agencies:
- FINRA-The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- SEC-Securities & Exchange Commission
- FINCEN-Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
The disclosure was recently made in Note 8 to the Annual Audited Report, Form X-17A-5, filed by Aegis Capital with the SEC, located on page 11 of the following document:
Aegis Capital Corp. is headquartered in New York and has over 400 registered representatives.
Aegis discloses 26 prior regulatory events. In an August 2015 settlement with FINRA, Aegis agreed to a fine of $950,000 to resolve allegations of improper sales of billions of shares unregistered penny stocks and failure to supervise anti-money laundering charges. More recently, in March 2017, Aegis paid a fine of $52,000 and was ordered to make restitution and disgorgement to resolve allegations that the firm’s supervisory procedures were insufficient.
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