Increasingly, clients of CPA firms impose confidentiality agreements as a precondition to engaging the firm to perform professional services. These may appear in the form of a separate nondisclosure ...

A survey from the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) asked state-registered small and mid-sized investment adviser firms how they use websites and technology, such as tablets ...

Customers rely on brokerages, advisors, accountants and even insurance agents to keep their information safe, secure and confidential. Well before the stay-at-home mandates of the pandemic, state ...

New Jersey's Rules of Professional Conduct provide that a lawyer "shall not" reveal information "relating to representation of a client," subject to certain enumerated exceptions. RPC 1.6(a).

Bank staffers are selling client data in back-door deals with online fraudsters — helping to facilitate sophisticated scams that target the live savings of Americans, according to a report. These bank ...

Kesavan Balasubramaniam is a freelance writer who covers a wide array of investing topics, including retirement, FX trading, and small business. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, ...