{"id":2998,"date":"2015-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverlaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/wesley-c-smith-edward-jones-securities-arbitration-claim\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:42:11","slug":"wesley-c-smith-edward-jones-securities-arbitration-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wesley-c-smith-edward-jones-securities-arbitration-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"FINRA Bars Wesley C. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finra.org\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Industry Regulatory Authority<\/a> (FINRA) barred Wesley Smith from working for any FINRA member.\u00a0 The broker had been previously registered with Edward Jones from January of 2008 to September of 2014. According to the CRD, Mr. Smith had not passed any principal\/supervisory exams, but had passed one general industry\/product exam and one state securities law exam. Mr. Smith has five customer disputes that have been resolved, and one pending.<\/p>\n<p>Following FINRA Notice of Suspension and Suspension from Association letters dated November 4, 2014 and December 1, 2014, FINRA, pursuant to Rule 9552(H), barred Mr. Smith from any association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Specifically, the bar resulted due to Mr. Smith\u2019s failure to request termination of his suspension within three months of the date of the Notice of Suspension. While notice of it occurred on November 4<sup>th<\/sup>, Mr. Smith\u2019s actual suspension began on November 28, 2014. A failure to make a request to end a suspension results in an automatic expulsion or bar from association with FINRA. The sanction was officially ordered on February 9, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Operated by FINRA, the CRD is the central licensing and registration system for the U.S. securities industry and its regulators. It contains the registration records of over 6,500 registered broker-dealers. Additionally, the CRD contains the qualification, employment and disclosure histories of more than 650,000 active registered individuals. Access to the Web CRD is for entitled members only. In order to gain access, firms must go through the entitlement process administered by FINRA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wesley-c-smith-edward-jones-securities-arbitration-claim\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading FINRA Bars Wesley C. Smith\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) barred Wesley Smith from working for any FINRA member.\u00a0 The broker had been previously registered with Edward Jones from January of 2008 to September of 2014. According to the CRD, Mr. Smith had not passed any principal\/supervisory exams, but had passed one general industry\/product exam and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stockbroker-misconduct"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Losses with Wesley Smith? - Silver Law Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you have questions about how your account with Wesley Smith was handled, call the experienced securities attorneys at Silver Law Group today\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wesley-c-smith-edward-jones-securities-arbitration-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Losses with Wesley Smith? - Silver Law Group\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"If you have questions about how your account with Wesley Smith was handled, call the experienced securities attorneys at Silver Law Group today\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Silver Law Group\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Losses with Wesley Smith? - Silver Law Group","description":"If you have questions about how your account with Wesley Smith was handled, call the experienced securities attorneys at Silver Law Group today","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wesley-c-smith-edward-jones-securities-arbitration-claim\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Losses with Wesley Smith? - Silver Law Group","twitter_description":"If you have questions about how your account with Wesley Smith was handled, call the experienced securities attorneys at Silver Law Group today","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Silver Law Group","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wesley-c-smith-edward-jones-securities-arbitration-claim\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wesley-c-smith-edward-jones-securities-arbitration-claim\/"},"author":{"name":"Silver Law Group","@id":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/de64d999508b1ad10d608a99f0d2e752"},"headline":"FINRA Bars Wesley C. 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