Two Robinhood broker-dealers accepted pay $45 million in included costs to resolve administrative charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission that they went in opposition to better than 10 totally different security and securities laws stipulations related to their dealer agent procedures.
The offenses by Robinhood Securities LLC and Robinhood Financial LLC pertaining to failings to report doubtful buying and selling in a immediate manner, falling quick to use applicable identification housebreaking defenses, and falling quick to successfully attend to unapproved accessibility to Robinhood pc system programs, the SEC said Monday.
The 2 Robinhood entities moreover had historic failings to protect and keep digital interactions, fell quick to protect duplicates of purposeful knowledge sources, and fell quick to protect some consumer interactions as lawfully known as for in between 2020 and 2021, in response to the agency.
The SEC said that Robinhood Securities alone fell quick for better than 5 years “to provide complete and accurate securities trading information, known as blue sheet data” to the agency.
According to an SEC order revealed Monday, “During the [Electronic Blue Sheets] Relevant Period, in response to requests from the Commission, Robinhood Securities made at least 11,849 EBS submissions to the Commission that contained inaccurate information or omissions, resulting from eleven types of errors.”
“Those errors resulted in the misreporting of EBS data for at least 392 million transactions,” the order said.
Robinhood Securities moreover fell quick, from May 2019 through December 2023, to abide by Regulation SHO i n hyperlink with its provide loaning and fractional share buying and selling program, the SEC said. Regulation SHO was made to take care of violent short-selling strategies.
Sanjay Wadhwa, the performing supervisor of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, in a declaration, said, “It is essential to the Commission’s broader efforts to protect investors and promote the integrity and fairness of our markets that broker-dealers satisfy their legal obligations when carrying out their various market functions.”
“Today’s order finds that two Robinhood firms failed to observe a broad array of significant regulatory requirements, including failing to accurately report trading activity, comply with short sale rules, submit timely suspicious activity reports, maintain books and records, and safeguard customer information,” Wadhwa said.
Robinhood Markets General Counsel Lukas Moskowitz, in a declaration, said, “We are pleased to resolve these matters. As the SEC’s order acknowledges, most of these are historical matters that our broker-dealers have previously addressed.”
“We are well-positioned to continue leading the industry in developing the innovative products and services our customers want and need to participate in U.S. and global financial markets,” Moskowitz said. “We look forward to working with the SEC under a new administration.”
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