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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed Rule 15c2-6 to address fraudulent, deceptive, or manipulative acts and practices used in connection with high-pressure telephone sales
Summary
The NAC has revised FINRA’s Sanction Guidelines, which guide FINRA adjudicators in developing remedial sanctions for violations of the securities rules. These revisions were based on a review to ensure that the guidelines accurately reflect the levels of sanctions imposed in FINRA disciplinary proceedings. The revisions tailor sanctions to differentiate between types of respondents and
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The national options exchanges are closing at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) on Friday, November 25, 2022 (the Friday after Thanksgiving), which will modify the exercise cut-off time for expiring options. FINRA reminds firms that, pursuant to FINRA Rule 2360(b)(23)(A)(viii), if a national options exchange or The Options Clearing Corporation announces a modified time for the close of trading
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FINRA Rule 4111 (Restricted Firm Obligations) became effective on January 1, 2022. This Notice announces that the first “Evaluation Date” for Rule 4111 will be June 1, 2022.
Questions concerning this Notice should be directed to:
Kosha Dalal, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Office of General Counsel (OGC), at (202) 728-6903 or by email; or
Michael Garawski, Associate
Summary
In support of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s re-proposal to amend Rule 15b9-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,1 FINRA is issuing this Notice to re-open the comment period for Regulatory Notice 15-13. Rule 15b9-1 currently provides proprietary trading firms with an exemption from membership in a national securities association. If the SEC re-proposal is adopted, the
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FINRA will conduct a special meeting of large firm members on or about October 31, 2022, to elect one individual to fill a vacant Large Firm Governor seat on the FINRA Board of Governors (FINRA Board).1 A formal notice of the special meeting, including the precise date, time and location, will be mailed to executive representatives on or about October 10, 2022.
The purpose of this
The restriction of investment in non-traditional stocks and bonds is a driving force in making the investment playing field unlevel between the regular Americans and HNW individuals/institutions. There is no benefit by limiting the playing field to the average American, and reduces the ability of wealth creation along with hedging abilities that HNW individuals have.
Inverse and leveraged ETFs
WASHINGTON — Beginning today, FINRA is expanding its alternative trading system (ATS) transparency initiative by publishing monthly information on block-size trades occurring on ATSs. The data is available free of charge on FINRA’s website.
Under the initiative to provide additional transparency to over-the-counter (OTC) trading in equity securities, FINRA in June 2014 began publishing on its
December 5, 2022
FINRA President and CEO Robert Cook and Vice President of Member Relations and Education Kayte Toczylowski are joined by senior staff to provide an update on the CE transformation and CAT implementation.
Speakers:
Robert Cook, FINRA President and Chief Executive Officer
Joe McDonald, Senior Director, Testing and Continuing Education
Paul McKenny, Vice President, FINRA CAT
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Shubham Agrawal, a Senior Security Engineer with FINRA, discovered that the Amazon EC2 Autoscaling service lacked PassRole validation check for one of its commands, CreateLaunchConfiguration. This can lead to “privilege escalation” in the AWS cloud, which is gaining elevated access or jumping from a lower privileged role to higher privileged one. This blog discusses the