Avenir Financial Group, a brokerage firm headquartered in New York with approximately two dozen brokers operating from eight branch offices. The firm, along with Michael Clements and Karim Ahmed Ibrahim, were named in a FINRA Complaint where the Department of Enforcement has alleged that they have committed fraud via sale of promissory or equity notes,…

Cadaret, Grant & Co., Inc., a FINRA member headquartered in Syracuse, NY, offers brokerage services to customers via roughly 935 registered reps throughout over 500 branch offices, and provides a majority of its reps the opportunity to offer insurance to investors not provided via the brokerage firm. The firm was censured and fined $75,000 by…