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Insurance licensing operates on a completely different system from securities licensing, and bankers who learn one assume things about the other that are wrong.

Securities registration runs through federal self-regulatory structure with national exams and firm sponsorship. Insurance licensing is state law. Each state licenses producers, sets its own pre-licensing education requirements, administers its own exam, and defines its own renewal and continuing education ...

The signature card is treated as paperwork and functions as the governing document for the account. When a customer dies, a marriage ends, a business partner disputes a withdrawal, or a court asks who owned the funds, the signature card is the answer — and it is frequently wrong, incomplete, or missing.

What the Signature Card Does

It performs four distinct jobs, and conflating them is the source of most problems.

It is the contract. By signing, the