Did you lose money investing with Hayk Papoyan (CRD# 4459980)?
Galvin Legal, PLLC is launching an investigation on behalf of investors who may have suffered losses investing with Hayk Papoyan. If you suffered losses investing with Hayk Papoyan, then Galvin Legal, PLLC may be able to help you recover your losses in a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA“) arbitration claim.
If you suffered losses and would like a free consultation with a securities attorney, then please call Galvin Legal, PLLC at 1-800-405-5117.
As of January 19, 2023, Hayk Papoyan’s FINRA BrokerCheck Report contains the following:
BARRED: FINRA has barred this individual from acting as a broker or otherwise associating with a broker-dealer firm.
Disclosure Events
1 Regulatory Event
1 Employment Separation After Allegations
December 20, 2021 – An AWC was issued in which Papoyan was barred from association with any FINRA member in all capacities. Without admitting or denying the findings, Papoyan consented to the sanction and to the entry of findings that he failed to timely disclose an outside brokerage account to his member firm. The findings stated that Papoyan opened and funded a brokerage account in his name at another firm, but at the time, did not disclose the account to his firm, nor did he disclose his association with his firm in his account application. Papoyan eventually disclosed the account to his firm, only after the initiation of the FINRA investigation. The findings also stated that Papoyan appeared for and provided on-the-record testimony to FINRA in which he falsely claimed he did not know about or control the subject brokerage account. Papoyan admitted that these claims were false during subsequent testimony. (FINRA Case #2020065058201)
Current and Previous Registrations
11/10/2004 – 07/28/2021 MML INVESTORS SERVICES, LLC (CRD#:10409) VAN NUYS, CA
06/27/2003 – 01/09/2004 PARK AVENUE SECURITIES LLC (CRD#:46173) NEW YORK, NY
If you suffered losses and would like a free consultation with a securities attorney, then please call Galvin Legal, PLLC at 1-800-405-5117.
Due Diligence Requirement
FINRA requires broker’s to conduct due diligence on investments and to conduct a suitability analysis when recommending securities to a customer that takes into account the customer’s knowledge and experience. FINRA Rule 2111(a) states that “a member or an associated person must have a reasonable basis to believe that a recommended transaction or investment strategy involving a security or securities is suitable for the customer, based on the information obtained through the reasonable diligence of the member or associated person to ascertain the customer’s investment profile. A customer’s investment profile includes, but is not limited to, the customer’s age, other investments, financial situation and needs, tax status, investment objectives, investment experience, investment time horizon, liquidity needs, risk tolerance, and any other information the customer may disclose to the member or associated person in connection with such recommendation.”
Rule 2111 is composed of three main obligations: reasonable-basis suitability, customer-specific suitability, and quantitative suitability. Brokers and the brokerage firms they work for that fail to conduct adequate due diligence on investments they recommend or that make unsuitable recommendations can be held responsible for the customer’s losses in a FINRA arbitration claim.
If you suffered losses and would like a free consultation with a securities attorney, then please call Galvin Legal, PLLC at 1-800-405-5117.
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If you suffered losses investing with Hayk Papoyan and would like a free consultation with a securities attorney, then please call Galvin Legal, PLLC at 1-800-405-5117.
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