Raymond James Financial

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Raymond James Financial, Inc.
Company type Public
Industry Investment services
Founded1962;62 years ago (1962)
Founder Robert James
Headquarters St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
Key people
Services Retail banking, commercial banking, insurance, investment banking, mortgage loans, private banking, private equity, wealth management, credit cards, financial analysis
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$12.99 billion (2023)
Increase2.svg US$2.280 billion (2023)
Increase2.svg US$1.733 billion (2023)
Total assets Decrease2.svg US$78.36 billion (2023)
Total equity Increase2.svg US$10.21 billion (2023)
Number of employees
c. 18,000 (2023)
Website raymondjames.com
Footnotes /references
Financials as of September 30,2023. [1]

Raymond James Financial, Inc. is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company providing financial services to individuals, corporations, and municipalities through its subsidiary companies that engage primarily in investment and financial planning, in addition to investment banking and asset management. Headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida, Raymond James is one of the largest banking institutions in the United States. [2]

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History

Raymond James was founded in 1962 when St. Petersburg broker, Robert James, formed Robert A. James Investments. In 1964, it merged with Raymond & Associates, founded by Edward Raymond in 1963, to form Raymond James & Associates. [3] Robert James' son, Tom James, joined in 1966 and assumed leadership of the firm in 1970. The firm planned to go public in 1969, but market conditions delayed its plan until 1983. [4] Tom turned over the CEO's post to Paul Reilly in 2010, [5] and his title as Chairman of the Board to Paul Reilly in 2016. [6] He remains on the leadership team as Chairman Emeritus.

In 2012, the firm purchased the Canadian assets of Allied Irish Bank. [4] In April 2012, they merged with Morgan Keegan & Company, creating one of the country's largest full-service wealth management and investment banking firms not headquartered in New York. [7]

As of the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2022, the firm had delivered 139 consecutive quarters of profitability. [8] In June 2016, it was listed as a Fortune 500 company for the first time. [9]

In September 2016, the firm announced its acquisition of Deutsche Bank Wealth Management's US private client services unit, Alex Brown & Sons. [10]

In April 2017, the firm purchased Reams Asset Management from UMB Financial Corporation. The purchase, which amounted to $172.5 million, included Scouts Investments. [11]

As of September 30, 2022, Raymond James has approximately 8,700 financial advisors throughout the United States, Canada and overseas. Total client assets under management are approximately $1.09 trillion.

Current operations

Raymond James has four main lines of operation: private client group, capital markets (made up of equity and fixed income capital markets as well as public finance), asset management group (made up of asset management services and Carillon tower advisers) and banking. [12] [13] [4]

Controversies

SEC v. Dennis Herula

In 2004, the SEC fined Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. $6.9 million for failure to supervise former broker Dennis Herula. Herula was accused of participating with others in a Ponzi scheme that raised about $44.5 million from investors in 1999-2000. Herula himself raised about $16.5 million of investor funds, most of which was later transferred to his wife's brokerage account at Raymond James. He was arrested in Bermuda and pleaded guilty to criminal charges of wire fraud and sentenced to 188 months in prison. [14] [15] [16] [17]

Supervision of branch managers

In 2005, the National Association of Securities Dealers fined Raymond James $2.75 million for lax supervision of producing branch managers. The investigation began with one Raymond James manager, who worked from an office in her Wisconsin home, handling approximately 700 accounts and selling mainly mutual funds and variable annuities. The Wisconsin manager was accused of selling unsuitable aggressive mutual funds and variable annuities over a four-year period. [14]

Auction rate securities

On June 29, 2011, Raymond James announced an agreement to repurchase at par auction rate securities (ARS) sold to clients through its domestic broker/dealer subsidiaries prior to February 13, 2008. The agreement—reached with the Securities and Exchange Commission and with state securities regulators led by Florida and Texas—resolved more than three years of investigation related to activity in the ARS market. Without admitting or denying the allegations, the firm also agreed to pay a fine totaling $1.75 million to the state regulators, but was not fined by the SEC.Raymond James sold $2.3 billion worth of ARS, underwrote $1.2 billion, and was the auction dealer for over $725 million. Since the $330 billion market for ARS crashed in 2008, at least 19 underwriters and broker-dealers were sued in class action suits. [18] [19]

Excessive commissions

In September 2011, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ordered Raymond James & Associates, Inc. and Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. to pay restitution of $1.69 million to 15,500 of their clients for charging excessive commissions on more than 27,000 securities transactions. The trades were made in client accounts between 2006 and 2010.

FINRA also fined RJA $225,000 and RJFS $200,000. [20]

Notable FINRA Fines

On May 18, 2016 Raymond James was fined $17 million for systemic anti-money laundering compliance failures. "RJA was fined $8 million and RJFS was fined $9 million for failing to establish and implement adequate AML procedures, which resulted in the firms’ failure to properly prevent or detect, investigate, and report suspicious activity for several years. RJA's former AML Compliance Officer, Linda L. Busby, was also fined $25,000 and suspended for three months.". [21] On December 21, 2017 Raymond James was fined $2 million for failing to reasonably supervise email communications. "FINRA found that during a nine-year review period, Raymond James’ email review system was flawed in significant respects, allowing millions of emails to evade meaningful review. This created the unreasonable risk that certain misconduct by firm personnel could go undetected by the firm. The combinations of words and phrases – otherwise known as the “lexicon” – used to flag emails for review were not reasonably designed to detect certain potential misconduct that Raymond James, in light of its size, structure, business model, and experience from prior disciplinary actions, knew or should have anticipated would recur from time to time. The firm also failed to devote adequate personnel and resources to the team that reviewed emails flagged by the system, even as the number of emails increased over time." [22]

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