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Podcasts: FINRA Unscripted

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Do you have student loan debt? If you do, you’re not alone. Almost 70 percent of students graduate with student debt—and many entering the job market in debt are unprepared to manage their own finances. That was the case for Gerri Walsh. Gerri now leads FINRA’s investor education efforts and is here today to help make us all smarter investors.

How can FINRA become a better, more effective regulator? That’s the question Robert Cook is looking to answer by soliciting feedback from financial firms, investors and other stakeholders. FINRA360 is the program through which he is turning the answer to the question into realty.
FINRA has an obligation to think through the impact of its rules. What is the problem we are trying to solve? How does this rule or solution solve that problem? Is it the best solution to the problem? Our Chief Economist Jonathan Sokobin asks those tough questions and more.