The Audit Committee of the FINRA Board of Governors engaged Lowenstein Sandler LLP to conduct an independent review in connection with a Fulton County, Georgia Superior Court decision vacating an arbitration award in favor of respondent Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC. The Court of Appeals of Georgia reversed the Fulton County, Georgia Superior Court decision finding no evidence of an agreement between Wells Fargo and FINRA. Furthermore, the Court of Appeals of Georgia found nothing that indicated Wells Fargo manipulated the arbitrator pool in the subject arbitration.
Why is it that the government thinks they know what's best for me and I don't. In a country that is rapidly losing the basic freedoms promised to us, now you want to take away my financial freedoms. Inverse funds help me protect capital during periods of turmoil, high inflation, geopolitical risks, and government overspending, to name a few. Leveraged funds allow me to hedge my
Comments: At every step along the way of purchasing a leveraged ETF or ETN asset, it is very clear that these products should be held for short term active speculative purposes. Every website you go to when researching the products immediately warns traders about the dangers of beta decay due to long term holding of such assets. I would argue that the risks associated with trading leveraged ETFs
FINRA should not impede retail traders. FINRA should instead regulate institutions to prevent them from taking too large positions all on one side as seen with so called "meme stocks". Institutions all have the same information, they all bet on the same side of futures and create volatility far in excess of their ability to cover positions. Through this practice of
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Date
Title
2022-85
May 20, 2022
SEC Charges Wells Fargo Advisors with Anti-Money Laundering Related Violations
SEC Order
2022-83
May 16, 2022
SEC Obtains Emergency Relief to Halt Pre-IPO Stock Fraud Scheme by Unregistered Broker-Dealer
SEC Complaint
2022-1
January 5, 2022
SEC Charges Additional Defendant in Phony
As previously announced, FINRA is introducing changes to the current Trade Data Dissemination Service (TDDS 2.0). protocol and structure.1 These changes are being made in concert with FINRA’s technical infrastructure upgrade, and TDDS clients must accommodate them by December 5, 2022; as of that date the current TDDS 2.0 version will no longer be supported. FINRA is offering testing for
SR-FINRA-2008-049 - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) (f/k/a National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”)) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a Uniform Practice Code (UPC) Advisory that will provide notice that FINRA will halt trading in OTC Equity Securities under FINRA Rule 6460(a)(3) (formerly NASD Rule 6660(a)(3)) if there is a marketwide halt in trading in NMS stocks.
Since Monday, December 5, 2022, FINRA had experienced an issue with ORF clearing messages for transactions that are cancelled, corrected, broken or reversed and thus caused duplicate settlement messages and incorrect settlement amounts for those transactions.
FINRA has resolved this issue and the software fix will be in production starting Thursday, December 8, 2022. Beginning December
Summary
FINRA has amended its rules to require firms to report time fields in trade reports submitted to a FINRA equity trade reporting facility (or FINRA Facility)1 using the same timestamp granularity that they use when reporting to the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). Once the amendments are effective, firms that report time on CAT order execution events in increments finer than milliseconds
As part of its Transparency Services improvement initiatives, beginning in December 2022, FINRA will re-platform the FINRA OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) to a new Linux-based operating system.1 This update is in addition to the Trade Data Dissemination Service (TDDS) protocol changes FINRA previously announced.
ORF currently supports timestamps up to milliseconds. Effective December 5, 2022, ORF
