Citigroup

Fearing the broker would leave, Citi distorted incidents he had with two colleagues in order to fire him and take his $200 million book of business, the broker’s lawyer says.

The bank, which has about 1,000 financial advisors and relationship managers in the U.S, will drop the agreement on January 8.

The firm displayed inaccurate ratings for more than 1,800 equity securities to its brokers, supervisors and retail customers, FINRA alleged.

Meet the best of the best in the bank channel. Read about how they approach their jobs, how they serve clients and how they made the list.

Here we conclude with the fourth and final segment of the Top 100 Bank Advisors. You can see all the other rankings (1-75) in our corresponding slideshows.

Here we present the third segment of the Top 100 Bank Advisors. You can see the top 50, as well as those who ranked 76-100, in our corresponding slideshows.

Here is the second segment of the Top 100 Bank Advisors. Check out the top 25, as well as those who ranked 51-100, in separate slideshows.

A well-rounded approach wins the day with the annual advisor ranking. No one-trick ponies allowed, as multiple metrics count toward advisors' scores, including AUM, production, growth and fee business.

The broker recommended that a recently retired couple invest $135,000 in a non-investment grade municipal bond intended only for sale to institutional buyers.

We've reshuffled our Top 100 bank advisors to list them by annual production. Here are the top 20.