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FINRA is a private, not-for-profit membership organization that is responsible under federal law for supervising our member firms. FINRA regulates a critical part of the securities industry—member brokerage firms doing business in the United States. In an effort to increase public awareness and understanding about the broad range of FINRA-registered firms and individuals, FINRA shares an annual snapshot of some of the data collected in the course of our work.
July 09, 2025
Arbitration and Mediation
June 30, 2025
Guidance
Update (July 11, 2025): Per the July 9, 2025, U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announcement, covered financial institutions will now have an additional 45 days—until Sept. 4, 2025—to implement the orders originally issued on June 25, 2025.
June 27, 2025
Media Center
At FINRA’s annual conference on May 13, 2025, President and CEO Robert Cook discusses the FINRA Forward initiative and other topics of interest to FINRA member firms and other stakeholders, in conversation with Kayte Toczylowski, VP, Member Relations and Education.
June 17, 2025
Guidance
FINRA member firms should be aware of an ongoing phishing campaign involving threat actors targeting executive employees at broker-dealers and investment advisors with fraudulent emails purporting to be from FINRA executives. The campaign began on or around May 21, 2025. These emails are not from FINRA, and firms should delete them and consider blocking the indicators of compromise contained at the end of this alert.
May 23, 2025
Guidance
FINRA member firms that use SentinelOne Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) protections—and potentially other EDR service providers—should be aware of a vulnerability which could allow threat actors to gain local administrative access to publicly accessible servers. This Cybersecurity Advisory describes the vulnerability as well as recommendations to protect your firm.
May 22, 2025
Guidance
The staffs of the Division of Trading and Markets and the Office of General Counsel of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. have withdrawn the July 8, 2019 Joint Staff Statement on Broker-Dealer Custody of Digital Asset Securities.
May 15, 2025
Media Center
Third-party risk is the most clicked-on topic in FINRA's 2025 Regulatory Oversight Report. But what is third-party risk and why are people so interested in it? What can FINRA member firms do to mitigate that risk? And how can FINRA help? These questions will be answered on the latest episode of FINRA Unscripted, featuring a returning guest, FINRA's Executive Vice President of Member Supervision Greg Ruppert.
May 06, 2025
Guidance
FINRA member firms should be aware of a technique threat actors use to avoid network defenders detecting the required communications of malware. On April 3, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) and New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NZ) issued a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) to warn organizations of the ongoing threat of one such technique: fast flux.
April 18, 2025
Guidance
FINRA created a quick reference guide to help firm users review and understand RSL indicators and dates in various scenarios in the FINRA Gateway Profiles application and FINRA Gateway Reports.
April 07, 2025
Media Center
This month, we are marking the 10th anniversary of the FINRA Securities Helpline for Seniors—an important milestone for a critical service that FINRA provides to protect vulnerable investors and assist harmed investors. On this FINRA Unscripted podcast episode, we will be speaking with leaders from FINRA’s Vulnerable Adults and Seniors Team—Elizabeth Yoka, the manager of VAST Intake, and Michael Paskin, the manager of the VAST Investigations, to discuss the Helpline and its 10 years of protecting investors.
April 01, 2025
Guidance
Member firms should be aware of an alleged large-scale data breach possibly affecting Oracle Cloud services at firms and third-party providers. FINRA recommends that firms review this information to assess any potential impact to their operations, as well as with third-party providers who provide services to the firm. FINRA previously delivered an email to firms whose domain names appeared in the threat actor post, as well as any firms that previously informed FINRA of their use of Oracle products and services.
April 01, 2025
Arbitration and Mediation
The Neutral Corner – Volume 1—2025
Mission Statement
Electronic Expense Reports Revisited by Makenzie Holahan, FINRA Associate Regional Manager
FINRA Dispute Resolution Services (DRS) and FINRA News
March 31, 2025
Guidance
Request for TRACE Reporting Exemption Under FINRA Rule 6732
March 26, 2025
Guidance
As of March 14, 2025, Texas’ and Washington’s Form BR settings were updated to reflect that they now accept Residential Supervisory Locations.
March 19, 2025
Guidance
Member firms should be aware of an ongoing phishing campaign involving fraudulent emails targeting executives and purporting to be from FINRA employees, with the goal of harvesting credentials. As indicated by the full, expanded email address hidden under a masked email display name, these emails are not from FINRA, and firms should delete them and consider blocking the fraudulent domains.
March 13, 2025
Guidance
Firms could be vulnerable to a newly discovered social engineering scheme in which bad actors trick customer support personnel into downloading and executing malware. This Alert describes the scheme and provides recommendations to help firms protect themselves from the threat.
March 07, 2025
Guidance
The Cyber and Analytics Unit (CAU) within FINRA’s Member Supervision program is highlighting recent updates to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0, which is a resource designed to help organizations manage and reduce cybersecurity risks, regardless of their degree of cybersecurity sophistication.
March 07, 2025
Media Center
As we observe National Consumer Protection Week amid a changing financial fraud landscape, the time is ripe to talk about the ways in which investors can protect themselves from scams. On this episode, a member of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation team joins us to talk about how we can all become more informed and vigilant in today's complex financial world.
March 04, 2025
Media Center
As the financial industry continues to evolve, it's important to stay ahead of emerging risks and trends. On this episode of FINRA Unscripted, we sit down with the leaders of FINRA's new Strategic Intelligence and Analytics team to discuss how they are working to identify and analyze these industry developments.
February 11, 2025
Report / Study
The 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report) provides member firms with insight into findings from the recent oversight activities of FINRA’s Member Supervision, Market Regulation and Enforcement programs (collectively, regulatory operations programs).
January 28, 2025
Media Center
As a self-regulatory organization, information sharing is key to FINRA's pursuit of its mission of investor protection and market integrity. The 2025 FINRA Regulatory Oversight Report provides just that. On this episode, FINRA’s regulatory leaders join us to discuss key takeaways from the report.
January 28, 2025
Podcast
With a new year come new financial challenges, resolutions, and investment risks. On this episode, FINRA’s Head of Investor Education shares insights on leveraging market trends and tools to achieve your money goals in 2025.
January 07, 2025
Arbitration and Mediation
The Neutral Corner – Volume 4—2024
Mission Statement
Year End Message
No Time to Sit Back: The Active Role of the Chairperson as Team Leader by Annamaria Boccia Smith, Esq., Former FINRA Arbitrator
FINRA Dispute Resolution Services (DRS) and FINRA News
December 30, 2024
Media Center
Behind every market transaction lies a wealth of data. But how can we harness this information? On this episode, members of the Market Regulation and Transparency Services team discuss periodic aggregate market data sets, including some new data recently added to FINRA's website, and how FINRA makes this information available to the public.
December 10, 2024