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Claimants allege unsuitable investments, overconcentration, misrepresentations and omissions of material information and failure to supervise in reference to variable annuities. February-July 2013.
Damage Amount Requested
$1,000,000.00
1/24/2019
Customer Dispute
Settled
Allegations
Claimants allege, inter alia, unsuitability with respect to investments - 2015-2017
Settlement Amount
$12,500.00
7/3/2018
Customer Dispute
Settled
Allegations
CLIENT AND HIS ATTORNEY ALLEGE UNSUITABILITY WITH RESPECT TO PURCHASE OF STRUCTURED PRODUCTS - MARCH 2016 - AUGUST 2016.
Damage Amount Requested
$37,170.40
Settlement Amount
$13,604.00
6/8/2018
Customer Dispute
Closed-No Action
Allegations
Client alleges unsuitability, inter alia, with respect to investments October 2013 - December 2017. Damages unspecified.
3/5/2018
Regulatory
Final
Initiated By
FINRA
Allegations
Without admitting or denying the findings, Ralby consented to the sanction and to the entry of findings that he refused to appear for a FINRA on-the-record testimony in connection with its investigation into whether Ralby had accepted loans from a customer in violation of FINRA rules.
Resolution
Acceptance, Waiver & Consent(AWC)
Bar
Bar (Permanent)
Registration Capacities Affected
All capacities
Duration
Indefinite
Start Date
3/5/2018
9/28/2017
Customer Dispute
Denied
Allegations
CLIENT ALLEGES UNSUITABILITY, INTER ALIA, WITH RESPECT TO INVESTMENTS - JULY 2016 - JANUARY 2017. DAMAGES UNSPECIFIED.
1/12/2017
Customer Dispute
Settled
Allegations
CLIENT ALLEGES UNAUTHORIZED TRADING, ITER ALIA, JULY 2013 - DECEMBER 2016. DAMAGES UNSPECIFIED.
Settlement Amount
$35,450.00
9/30/2014
Customer Dispute
Award / Judgment
Allegations
PLANTIFFS ALLEGE CIVIL CONSPIRACY AND WILLFULL STATUTORY VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 627.4137. ALLEGED COMPENSATORY DAMAGE AMOUNT IS UNDETERMINED.
Damages Granted
$2,205,748.73
Broker Comment
THIS MATTER ARISES OUT OF A BITTER ESTATE BATTLE BETWEEN THE NATURAL CHILDREN OF A FORMER CUSTOMER OF MR. RALBY'S WHO IS NOW DECEASED AND THAT CUSTOMER'S SECOND WIFE. THE NATURAL CHILDREN, WHO WERE NEVER CUSTOMERS OF MR. RALBY AND TO WHOM HE OWED NO FIDUCIARY OR OTHER DUTY OF CARE, FILED THIS ACTION CHALLENGING CERTAIN PRE-DEATH TRANSFERS MADE BY THE DECEDENT THAT WERE MADE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SECOND WIFE. MR. RALBY IS NOT ALLEGED TO HAVE BENEFITED IN ANY WAY FROM THE TRANSFERS. MR. RALBY SECURED THE DISMISSAL OF THE FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT AND IS SEEKING THE DISMISSAL OF THE SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT AND EXPUNGEMENT.
4/4/2010
Customer Dispute
Pending
Allegations
CUSTOMER ALLEGES BEING MISLED REGARDING THE RISK LEVEL OF HIS PURCHASE OF THE STANFORD INTERNATIONAL BANK CD.
Damage Amount Requested
$587,698.00
Broker Comment
THE COMPLAINT WAS FILED IN ERROR BY THE CUSTOMER WHO INDICATED THAT IT WAS A MISTAKE AND THAT NO CLAIM WAS INTENDED TO BE ASSERTED AGAINST FA. FA WILL BE SEEKING EXPUNGEMENT WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE CUSTOMER.
8/26/2009
Civil
Pending
Initiated By
RALPH S. JANVEY, RECEIVER
Allegations
RALBY IS ALLEGED TO HAVE RECEIVED FINANCIAL REMUNERATION FROM STANFORD
Broker Comment
THIS ACTION DOES NOT INVOLVE A CUSTOMER COMPLAINT. THE STANFORD RECEIVER SEEKS TO RECOVER COMPENSATION PAID TO FORMER STANFORD FINANICAL ADVISORS.
4/8/2009
Customer Dispute
Pending
Allegations
CUSTOMER ALLEGES BEING MISLED REGARDING THE RISK LEVEL OF HIS PURCHASE OF THE STANFORD INTERNATIONAL BANK CD.
Damage Amount Requested
$728,419.00
Broker Comment
THE COMPLAINT WAS FILED IN ERROR BY THE CUSTOMER WHO INDICATED THAT IT WAS A MISTAKE AND THAT NO CLAIM WAS INTENDED TO BE ASSERTED AGAINST FA. FA WILL BE SEEKING EXPUNGEMENT WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE CUSTOMER.
7/25/1999
Customer Dispute
Denied
Allegations
UNSUITABILITY
Damage Amount Requested
$30,000.00
License(s)
The broker is not currently registered with any state or SRO.
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Investment Adviser
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Disclosures can be customer complaints or arbitrations, regulatory actions, employment terminations, bankruptcy filings and certain civil or criminal proceedings that they were a part of.