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Special Notice – 5/15/25

Summary

FINRA, as a self-regulatory organization, is informed by and benefits from engagement with and the expertise of our member firms, investors, and other interested parties on regulatory and policy initiatives related to FINRA’s mission of promoting market integrity and investor protection.

2022073420401 Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC, CRD 42568 AWC gg (2025-1749687609054).pdf

Between August 2021 and August 2023, Siebert violated MSRB Rule G-14 by failing to report the correct time of trade to the MSRB's Real-Time Transaction Reporting System (RTRS) for approximately 12,100 municipal securities transactions and by failing to report to the RTRS approximately 4,700 additional municipal securities transactions. Siebert also violated MSRB Rule G-27 by failing to establish and maintain a supervisory system, including written supervisory procedures (WSPs), reasonably designed to ensure compliance with MSRB Rule G-14.

2022074734101 Global Financial Services, L.L.C CRD 35699 AWC gg (2025-1749687609092).pdf

From June 2020 to the present, Global Financial failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system, including written supervisory procedures (WSPs), reasonably designed to achieve compliance with Rule 15l-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Regulation Best Interest or Reg BI), and FINRA Rules as they relate to recommendations of complex products like volatility-linked ETPs to retail and non-retail customers and the risk of recommending to retail and non-retail customers a single foreign currency denominated bond at concentration levels inconsistent with the customers’ profiles.