Podcasts: FINRA Unscripted

What does it take to receive credit for extraordinary cooperation when it comes to FINRA Enforcement actions? What does extraordinary even mean in that context? On this episode, we dig into updated guidance on this topic with FINRA’s head of Enforcement.

How many Americans participate in the gig economy? Do you regret paying what you did for college? Would you avoid a medical service due to its cost? The new FINRA Foundation Financial Capability Study asked these questions and more to get a pulse on recent changes to American financial capability and well-being.

The gap between the Haves and the Have Nots continues to widen and Americans are failing to save money, struggling with student loan debt and facing decreasing financial literacy, according to the new FINRA Foundation Financial Capability Study. On this, we delve into the study results and their implication.

This episode originally aired in July 2018. What do physicists and financial industry regulators have in common? More than you'd think. On this episode, we sit down with Tom Gira, head of FINRA’s Market Regulation and Transparency Services group, to learn not just how the cloud and machine learning have fundamentally improved FINRA's ability to regulate markets, but also what we've been learning from physicists along the way.

FINRA is in the middle of a wide-ranging, multi-year effort to revolutionize the digital experience of FINRA member firms. It’s a transformation driven by firms for firms. On this episode, we learn how the project will simplify the user experience, increase flexibility and automation when it comes to user-defined access to FINRA data and more.

The FINRA Annual Conference in Washington, DC, is FINRA’s biggest event of the year. On this episode, we take you behind the scenes of this year’s event to listen in on the first session of the three-day event: a fireside chat with FINRA President and CEO Robert Cook and EVP of Member Supervision Bari Havlik.

The world of money laundering is a fast-paced and ever evolving, which can make it difficult for a financial firm to develop and maintain a strong anti-money laundering program. On this episode, two FINRA anti-money laundering experts discuss current priorities and best practices when it comes to AML regulation.

The only thing many people know about money laundering is what they’ve learned from Hollywood. So if you want to really understand what money laundering is, and more specifically, the efforts brokerage firms must take to prevent and detect it, tune in. On this episode we talk to two of FINRA’s Anti-Money Laundering experts.

FINRA’s 2019 Budget Summary provides transparency not just into FINRA’s operations, but also the self-regulatory organization’s financial guiding principles. On this episode, we hear from FINRA’s CFAO about how a drawing down on reserves can be part of a company’s long-term financial plan.

The Central Review Group is the nerve center of FINRA’s Office of Fraud Detection and Market Intelligence (OFDMI). On this episode of FINRA Unscripted, we learn how the group combs through tens of thousands of investor complaints, regulatory tips, disclosure events, routine regulatory filings and more every year to look for red flags of fraud or other concerns.