U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler, testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee during an oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 15, 2022.
U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a combined $549 million in penalties against Wells Fargo and a raft of smaller or non-U.S. firms that failed to maintain electronic records of employee communications.
It was regulators' latest effort to stamp out the pervasive use of secure messaging apps like Signal, Meta 's WhatsApp or Apple 's iMessage by Wall Street employees and managers.
Starting in late 2021, the watchdogs secured settlements with bigger players including JPMorgan Chase , Goldman Sachs , Morgan Stanley and Citigroup .
Fines related to the issue total more than $2 billion, according to the SEC and CFTC.
Persons:
Gary Gensler, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Sanjay Wadhwa
Organizations:
. Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC, Banking, Housing, Urban Affairs Committee, Capitol, Wells, Securities, Futures Trading, Wall Street, JPMorgan, Citigroup, CFTC
Locations:
Washington, U.S