BD Hit With Reg BI Fine Over Annuity Exchanges
May 30, 2025 by Melanie Waddell
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has fined AAG Capital $100,000 and ordered the firm to pay nearly $39,000 in restitution for exchanging retail customers’ insurance policies, fixed indexed annuities and variable annuities for more costly registered index-linked annuities, or RILAs. The exchanges violated Regulation Best Interest.
From February 2021 through the present, AAG Capital failed to establish and maintain written policies and procedures and a supervisory system reasonably designed to comply with Reg BI or recommendations to retail customers regarding RILAs, the order states