FINRA Institute at Wharton CRCP Continuing Education Requirement

Certified Regulatory and Compliance Professional (CRCP) designees are required to complete 12 hours of continuing education (CE) every three years as of their certificate anniversary award date. Now, you can choose your CRCP CE credits from a wide variety of convenient educational formats, including FINRA developed conferences, e-learning and classroom learning courses, online workshops and webcasts.

Effective April 2007, the following FINRA programs are eligible for FINRA CRCP CE credit:

 

Eligible Program Duration CE Credits
FINRA Classroom Learning ½ Day Course
1 Day Course
2 Day Course

3
6
12
FINRA Conferences ½ Day Pre-conference
1 Day Conference
1 ½ Day Conference
2 Day Conference

3
6
9
12
FINRA South Region Compliance Seminar  1 ½ Day Seminar

 7
FINRA E-Learning Courses 25-30 Minute Course
2 Hour Course*
8 Hour Course*

½
2
8
FINRA Online Workshop 90 Minutes

1 ½
FINRA Webcast 10-17 Minutes

¼


*Arbitrator Training E-Learning programs

Current and future CRCP designees who do not remain current with the CRCP CE requirement may no longer hold themselves out as Certified Regulatory and Compliance Professionals or use the designation of CRCP.

Note to Graduates from 2003 and Prior: CRCP designees who received their designation in 2003 or earlier are waived from the CRCP CE requirement. However, these designees are encouraged to complete voluntary continuing education.

Note to 2004-2006 Graduates: FINRA has granted a one-time, one-year extension for all CRCP designees with graduation dates in 2004, 2005 and 2006. As such, 2004 graduates must meet any overdue CRCP CE requirements by 2008; 2005 graduates by 2009; and 2006 graduates by 2010.

CRCP designees should self-report their credits by emailing crcpce@finra.org. When self-reporting your FINRA Institute CRCP CE credits, please provide your full name, full name of the program and date of the program.

Please note: Effective, April 1, 2007, completion of a post course assessment is no longer required to receive CE credit.