12 CFR 13.4
§ 13.4 Recommendations to customers.
United States · 12 CFR — Banks and Banking · Status: effective
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- 12 CFR 13.4, § 13.4 Recommendations to customers, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/43073
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In recommending to a customer the purchase, sale or exchange of a government security, a bank that is a government securities broker or dealer shall have reasonable grounds for believing that the recommendation is suitable for the customer upon the basis of the facts, if any, disclosed by the customer as to the customer's other security holdings and as to the customer's financial situation and needs.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.