
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined LPL Financial LLC $7.5 million for 35 separate, significant email system failures, which prevented LPL from accessing hundreds of millions of emails and reviewing tens of millions of other emails. Additionally, LPL made material misstatements to FINRA during its investigation of the firm's email failures. LPL was also ordered to establish a $1.5 million fund to compensate brokerage customer claimants potentially affected by its failure to produce email. For more info visit https://www.finra.org/media-center/news-releases/2013/lpl-pay-9-million-systemic-email-failures-and-making-misstatements