Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. is boosting its public-finance group by more than 10 percent with the addition of seven former employees of Wachovia Securities.

Wachovia bought A.G. Edwards Inc. last fall and moved its securities division to St. Louis.

Peter Czajkowski,…

An administrative law judge with the Securities & Exchange Commission has ordered three brokers with the old A.G. Edwards brokerage firm to pay fines and give up money netted in a market timing scheme in Massachusetts and Florida.

In May, A.G. Edwards…

National City, the Cleveland-based bank that has been expanding its retail presence here, is adding two investment bankers from A.G. Edwards & Sons, which was taken over last year by Wachovia Corp.

The two are Jack Gillis, who had been…

Wachovia Securities this week notified 500 information technology workers in St. Louis that their jobs will change or be eliminated, a company spokesman said.

Wachovia, which took over A.G. Edwards & Sons in October, has been going through each department at the…

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. has taken on five investment bankers who formerly worked for A.G. Edwards & Sons,  as the shakeout continues in the wake of  Wachovia Securities’ purchase of A.G. Edwards last year.

Two - Doug Rubenstien and Chad…

Three former investment bankers  from A.G. Edwards have moved to Wells, Fargo & Co., where they have formed an investment banking team.

The three -   Kevin Sullivan, Brian Glass and Steve Hodapp -   will work from an office…