Enforcement Notice - Hearing - IN THE MATTER OF Graeme Robert Kirkland - Settlement Hearing

TORONTO, Oct. 30, 2017 /CNW/ - A hearing has been scheduled before a Hearing Panel of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) to consider whether the panel should accept a Settlement Agreement entered into between IIROC staff and Graeme Robert Kirkland.

The agreement concerns conduct involving a failure to consider and address a potential material conflict of interest between Mr. Kirkland and his clients and a failure to escalate a client's written complaint to his employer.

The hearing is not open to the public, but will become open in the event that the panel accepts the agreement. If the agreement is accepted, the panel's decision and the Settlement Agreement will be made available at www.iiroc.ca.

Documents related to ongoing IIROC enforcement proceedings – including Reasons and Decisions of Hearing Panels – are posted on the IIROC website as they become available. Click here to search and access all IIROC enforcement documents.

IIROC formally initiated the investigation into Mr. Kirkland's conduct in August 2015. The alleged violations occurred while he was a Registered Representative with a Toronto branch of BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., an IIROC-regulated firm. Mr. Kirkland is currently a Registered Representative with Argosy Securities Inc., an IIROC-regulated firm.

The Notice of Motion announcing the settlement hearing is available at: http://docs.iiroc.ca/DisplayDocument.aspx?DocumentID=AD71A9DC544C457AB7506D801C941A74&Language=en

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IIROC is the national self-regulatory organization which oversees all investment dealers and their trading activity in Canada's debt and equity markets. IIROC sets high quality regulatory and investment industry standards, protects investors and strengthens market integrity while supporting healthy Canadian capital markets. IIROC carries out its regulatory responsibilities through setting and enforcing rules regarding the proficiency, business and financial conduct of dealer firms and their registered employees and through setting and enforcing market integrity rules regarding trading activity on Canadian debt and equity marketplaces.

IIROC investigates possible misconduct by its member firms and/or individual registrants. It can bring disciplinary proceedings which may result in penalties including fines, suspensions, permanent bars, expulsion from membership, or termination of rights and privileges for individuals and firms.

All information about disciplinary proceedings relating to current and former member firms is available in the Enforcement section of the IIROC website. Background information regarding the qualifications and disciplinary history, if any, of advisors currently employed by IIROC-regulated firms is available free of charge through the IIROC AdvisorReport service. Information on how to make investment dealer, advisor or marketplace-related complaints is available by calling 1 877 442-4322.

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