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The ACATS system expedites transfers between investment firms. It’s fast and fraudsters try to exploit that. Tien Tran logged into his wife’s Roth IRA one afternoon to check on a solar energy stock.

Regulators are warning about a surge in a type of crime known as ACATS fraud, where thieves use the brokerage industry’s Automated Customer Account Transfer Service to steal investor assets, the New ...

Stock trading used to be the domain of the wealthy and connected. Retirement savings used to be something you set up once and forget about. With the advent of Robinhood in 2015, all that changed. Now, ...

There has been an increased number of fraudulent transfer of customer accounts via the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service, otherwise known as ACATS, according to Chris Hunter, Principal ...

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The crypto exchange is deepening its push into traditional finance by enabling ACATS stock transfers and expanding trading products beyond digital assets. Coinbase is allowing users to transfer ...