a sign is displayed on the morgan stanley building in new york us july 16 2018 reuterslucas jackson aug 5 reuters  morgan stanley said on friday it had reached agreements with two regulatory agencies to resolve recordkeeping investigations about business communications on messaging platforms not approved by the bank the bank said it reached agreements in principle with the securities and exchange commission sec for 125 million and the commodity futures trading commission cftc for 75 million according to a filing httpsbitly3dbblyd morgan stanley had said in may it may face civil liabilities from claims filed by block trade transaction participants nearly three months after it first disclosed us regulators and prosecutors were probing various aspects of its block trading business read more reuters reported last october the sec was looking in to how wall street banks kept track of employees workrelated digital communications such as text messages and emails read more reporting by mehnaz yasmin in bengaluru editing by krishna chandra eluri