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UBS Settles SEC Charges Over Supervisory Failures in Sale of Complex Products

September 28, 2016

UBS Financial Services agreed to pay over $15 million in disgorgement, interest and fines to settle SEC charges that it failed to adequately educate and train its sales force about critical aspects of certain complex financial products sold to retail investors. As a result, UBS RR's apparently were ill-prepared to make suitable recommendations. 

 

UBS RR's sold some $548 million in reverse convertible notes ('RCNs') to more than 8,700 relatively inexperienced retail customers.  RCNs are complex securities that feature embedded derivatives whose performance is driven by the concept of implied volatility.