Ready or not: lost securityholders,uncashed checks and dormant accounts

Purpose – This paper aims to summarize the new rules requiring broker-dealers with customer accounts to search for lost securityholders.Design/methodology/approach – The paper explains the requirement under SEC Rule 17Ad-17,beginning January 23, 2014, for any broker-dealer with customer security accounts to conduct database searches if the broker-dealer receives returned undeliverable corre…