H. Deane Armstrong, CRCP.

H. Deane Armstrong, CRCP.

H. Deane Armstrong is a director at Vigilant, responsible for overseeing Broker-Dealers, leading compliance teams and providing regulatory updates. Deane came to the firm as a forty-year veteran of the securities industry. Beginning his career at Butcher & Singer and then working as a bond trader over the next dozen years, Deane helped start Regional Brokers, Inc., a municipal securities broker’s broker, in 1992. At RBI, he established trading relationships with both large and small broker-dealers, always guided by the adage, “Your word is your bond”. In 2007, he assumed the compliance responsibilities of the firm, and was named CCO.

Deane has leveraged his knowledge and industry experience to perform compliance consulting work for other firms. This work has included aiding firms in the writing their WSPs, performing branch audits, marketing review, web CRD management, conducting FinCEN, email reviews etc.

Deane has participated in committees at both SIFMA and the MSRB, is a past-president of the Municipal Bond Club of Philadelphia, and an active member of the Bond Club of Philadelphia. Deane holds various securities licenses, including Series 7 (General Securities Representative), Series 53 (Municipal Supervising Principal), and Series 24 (Securities Principal). He earned his CRCP from the FINRA/Wharton program in 2009.

Deane received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Dickinson College, after having graduated from The Haverford School.