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CMG Institutional Trading, LLC and Shawn Derrick Baldwin (Principal)
2006006890801

Acting through Baldwin, CMG Institutional Trading

• participated in securities related activities without employing a qualified municipal securities principal;
• failed to timely file quarterly lists of issuers with which it engaged in a municipal securities business;
• failed to adopt, maintain and enforce written supervisory procedures reasonably designed to ensure that the conduct of the broker and associated persons in municipal securities activities are in compliance with Municipal Securities and Rulemaking Board (MSRB) rules and that the procedures shall codify the broker’s supervisory system for ensuring compliance;
• had an inadequate Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance program, in that it failed to
• verify customer identification information,
• conduct independent testing of its AML program,
• designate a person to transmit contact information to FINRA and
• to provide AML training for two years;
• failed to timely create and maintain a business continuity plan and engaged in securities transactions without a qualified financial and operations principal (FINOP);
• conducted a securities business while its net capital was below the required minimum;
• failed to prepare an accurate general ledger, trial balances and books and records; and failed to file an annual audit report and a quarterly Financial and Operational Combined Uniform Single (FOCUS) report; and
• failed to file an application for approval of a material change in its business operations even though it participated in an offering as an underwriter on a firm commitment basis, and disseminated sales literature that contained numerous inaccuracies and misrepresentations.

Also, the firm permitted Baldwin to engage in its securities business even though his registration was inactive because he had failed to complete a continuing education course.

FINRA's National Adjudicatory Council (NAC) imposed these sanctions following appeal of an Office of Hearing Officers (OHO) decision:

CMG Institutional Trading, LLC: Expelled

Shawn Derrick Baldwin (Principal): Barred

Tags: Unregistered Principal  WSP  MSRB  AML  NAC  FINOP  FOCUS  Material Change Of Business