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RIA / WealthAdvisordual registered (broker-dealer)40 years in industry

Paul Henry Melanson

Advisor at SANTANDER SECURITIES

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Relationships: 4
Dated events: 0
On other graphs: 0
Observed: Jul 22, 2003 to Sep 15, 2026

Across DFX

This entity has not been resolved onto another DFX graph by a shared identifier. A name match elsewhere would be a candidate, never an identity, and none is recorded.

Facts

fact = as filed or announced; derived = computed by DFX; estimate = a band, never a point

Current firm: SANTANDER SECURITIES
Current firm class: broker-dealer affiliated wealth managerderived
Book size: not publicno per-advisor AUM is published by the SEC, FINRA or IAPD, and DFX estimates none
Industry start: Oct 1, 1985earliest registration or exam on IAPD
Years in industry: 40derivedfrom the industry start date
Years at current firm: 12derivedfrom the current registration's begin date
Prior firms: 3
Current registrations: 1
Registered states: 1
Exams: S63|S65
First exam: Oct 1, 1985
First registration: Jul 22, 2003
Dual registered: yes, broker-dealer
IAPD individual key: 1388425

Registration history

registration spans on IAPD; the basis says whether the span is a current registration or a prior employment record

Firm	Class	Began	Ended	Current	Branch	Basis
SANTANDER SECURITIES	Bd affiliated wealth	Mar 31, 2014	n/a	yes	Wakefield, MA\|Melrose, MA\|Salem, NH\|Winchester, MA\|Belmont, MA\|READING, MA	Current employment
CITIZENS SECURITIES, INC.	Bd affiliated wealth	Oct 19, 2006	Mar 17, 2014	no	STONEHAM, MA\|WINCHESTER, MA\|PEABODY, MA\|TEWKSBURY, MA\|WILMINGTON, MA\|LAWRENCE, MA\|BEVERLY, MA\|BEVERLY, MA\|WOBURN, MA\|WOBURN, MA\|WINCHESTER, MA\|WOBURN, MA\|WOBURN, MA\|READING, MA\|MANCHESTER, NH\|NORTH READING, MA\|WINCHESTER, MA\|WOBURN, MA\|STONEHAM, MA	Previous registration
BANC OF AMERICA INVESTMENT SERVICES, INC.	n/a	Oct 20, 2004	Oct 17, 2006	no	BOSTON, MA\|BOSTON, MA\|BOSTON, MA	Previous registration
QUICK & REILLY, INC.	n/a	Jul 22, 2003	Oct 20, 2004	no	BOSTON, MA	Previous registration

Moves

a move is two registration dates; a bulk corporate re-registration is typed BULK_TRANSFER and is not a move

From	To	Left	Joined	Gap, days	Kind	Move type
CITIZENS SECURITIES, INC.	SANTANDER SECURITIES	Mar 17, 2014	Mar 31, 2014	14	Firm change	Other
BANC OF AMERICA INVESTMENT SERVICES, INC.	CITIZENS SECURITIES, INC.	Oct 17, 2006	Oct 19, 2006	2	Firm change	Other
QUICK & REILLY, INC.	BANC OF AMERICA INVESTMENT SERVICES, INC.	Oct 20, 2004	Oct 20, 2004	0	Bulk transfer	Other

Relationships

Registered with (4)

→ SANTANDER SECURITIESRegistered adviserregistration: current employment
Mar 31, 2014 to presentfactForm ADV
→ CITIZENS SECURITIES, INC.Registered adviserregistration: previous registration
Oct 19, 2006 to Mar 17, 2014factForm ADV
→ BANC OF AMERICA INVESTMENT SERVICES, INC.Registered adviserregistration: previous registration
Oct 20, 2004 to Oct 17, 2006factForm ADV
→ QUICK & REILLY, INC.Registered adviserregistration: previous registration
Jul 22, 2003 to Oct 20, 2004factForm ADV

Dated events

No dated event names this entity yet.

Provenance

Graph: RIA / Wealth Management
Canonical id: dfx:ria:2d5b2408-9f72-feed-b8c8-53b37aff28f9
First observed: Jul 22, 2003
Last observed: Sep 15, 2026 5 days ago
Source families: Federal regulator filings
1 registered feed stand behind this record; each fact above carries its own dates and, where the publisher serves one, its document.
Resolution: Identity across graphs by shared identifier (CRD, CIK, EIN, ADV fund id, individual CRD) or citation; a name match is shown as a candidate and never merged.

Paul Henry Melanson

Advisor at SANTANDER SECURITIES

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