Morgan Stanley
Federal regulators are probing Morgan Stanley's wealth-management business to find out more about the division's vetting process for wealthy clients.
  • More federal regulators are probing Morgan Stanley to find out how it vets wealthy clients, per The Wall Street Journal.
  • The SEC sent the bank a list of clients with questions about how they were screened, per the report.
  • One client includes a Russian-linked billionaire who was sanctioned by the UK, the Journal reported. 

More federal regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, are looking into how Morgan Stanley vets its wealthy clients and their sources of money, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.