TD Ameritrade, Inc. Fined by FINRA
An AWC was issued in which the firm was censured and fined $250,000. Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that it created inaccurate order memoranda on options orders for customers whose orders should have been coded as Professional Customers. The findings stated that these orders were entered through the firm’s internal trading platform and routed to option exchanges through third party broker-dealers.