
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced a settlement with Morgan Stanley & Co. To resolve charges that the firm's former affiliate, Morgan Stanley DW, Inc., failed on numerous occasions to provide emails to claimants in arbitration proceedings as well as to regulators - while representing that the destruction of the firm's email servers in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center resulted in the loss of all pre-9/11 email. In fact, the firm had millions of pre-9/11 emails that had been restored to the firm's active email system using back-up tapes that had been stored in another location. The settlement provided for distribution of $9.5 million to two groups of customers who had arbitration claims against the firm. FINRA also imposed a $3 million fine on the firm for its failure to provide pre-9/11 emails and updates to a supervisory manual. For more info visit https://www.finra.org/media-center/news-releases/2007/morgan-stanley-pay-125-million-resolve-finra-charges-it-failed-provide