Social media use permitted by Morgan Stanley

LinkedIn is successfully turning itself into a media company, notes Scott Devitt at Morgan Stanley. This is fairly obvious to anyone who has been paying close attention, but it's worth mentioning again.

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Editor’s Note: David A. Katz is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz specializing in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and complex securities transactions. This post is based on an article by Mr. Katz and Laura A.

Jake Zamansky submits:Earlier this week FINRA announced that it fined Morgan Stanley (MS) $800,000 for failing to adequately disclose material conflicts of interest to investors. FINRA alleged that the firm didn’t make required disclosures in research reports about the securities holdings belonging to analysts. Disclosures were deficient in more than 6,500 research reports over a four year period.

FINRA on Tuesday said it ordered Morgan Stanley (MS) to pay $800,000 for failing to disclose conflicts of interests in thousands of equity-research reports and public appearances of its research analysts since 2006. Finra in 2005 found that the company violated research analyst disclosure rules.

(Reuters) - An arbitration panel denied Morgan Stanley Smith Barney&#