A Reuters investigation team published a story earlier this year documenting high-risk brokers and brokerage firms using bulk data it compiled. Silver Law Group continues to investigate claims against these brokerage firms.
FINRA requires brokers to disclose 23 types of incidents that might give investors concern, such as regulatory sanctions, court and arbitration judgments and bankruptcies. FINRA then publishes these disclosures on its BrokerCheck website. Investors can then search the backgrounds of these brokers but cannot examine the data from a big-picture level.
According to the story, Reuters obtained bulk FINRA data from researchers at the Columbia University Law School Datalab and use the information to compile a list of 48 brokerage firms with the highest percentage of incidents.