The Contra Reporting Firm 20 Minute Compliance Report Card is a monthly status report on compliance for market participants with the requirement that Contra Firms accept / decline / compare trades within 20 minutes of trade execution. It provides information about the number of trades that were accepted / declined / compared within 20 minutes of execution, along with the number of trades that
How FINRA Assesses Performance of its Machine Learning Models
Data science has come a long way in the past 10 years. As machine learning projects become productionized, they look increasingly like software projects. Focus has shifted from presenting charts to integrating AI software into a production pipeline. There is still plenty of work in the former scenario, but the latter has become more
It can be difficult to recover assets lost to fraud or other scenarios in which an investor has experienced a problem with an investment. But there are legitimate ways to attempt recovery. In most cases you can do so on your own—at little or no cost.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The 1988-89 NASD broker-dealer and agent registration renewal cycle begins its second phase this month. Information in this notice is published to assist members in reviewing, reconciling, and
Indexed annuities have surged in popularity because of the way they incorporate features beyond those found in conventional fixed annuities. Similar to conventional fixed annuities, the taxes on gains in indexed annuities are deferred until you begin receiving distributions.
Summary
FINRA has adopted new Rule 6439 (Requirements for Member Inter-Dealer Quotation Systems),1 which implements additional requirements for firms that operate systems that regularly disseminate the quotations of identified broker-dealers in OTC Equity Securities (each an “inter-dealer quotation system” or “IDQS”).2 Rule 6439 will become effective on October 1, 2021, except for paragraph (d)(
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
LAST DATE FOR COMMENT: JANUARY 24, 1986
BACKGROUND
In Notice to Members 85-58, dated August 30, 1985, the NASD solicited comments from members and other interested persons on a proposed new rule (new paragraph (m) Article III, Section 26, NASD Rules of Fair Practice) that would govern the prompt payment by NASD members for investment company
First off, the amount of corruption in today's market is unbelievable. To see FINRA, an organization that is supposed to protect the integrity of the market; come out with baseless claims to try and keep the public from arguably the safest investment opportunities the market has to offer, definitely seems as if there's an agenda that's not in the best interest of the
My first impression of this proposal is that it is a reaction to activities of individuals during the recent pandemic. Those who followed Wall Street Bets chasing meme stocks succumbed to, as Glenn Frey wrote in Smugglers Blues, "The lure of easy money is a very strong disease." As such the cure for such affliction would be better found with "Gamblers Anonymous"
I am taking this opportunity to respond to your potential limitation to using leveraged ETF's. I am a big boy and want to have the ability to use leveraged ETF's. Why is that any different than using margin with stocks. I also understand the contango component of leveraged ETF's. There was a study done by Barron's a few years ago and several leveraged ETF