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Legal & Compliance
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Executive Summary
On September 26, 1997, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved an amendment to the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®) short sale rule to provide that a "legal" short sale can be effected at a price equal to or greater than the offer price
Use of Inverse and Leveraged ETFs are great for investors to use when the markets are not functioning properly, perfect for late 2021 and now 2022. ETFs are common, simple, even teenagers understand how to use them.
Planning for retirement in a bear market is difficult in the best of times. When we hit a bear market, or a crashing market at the age of 60+, with inflation over 8%, certainly we
To Whom It May Concern:
Your recent notice, FINRA Regulatory Notice #22-08, seems very problematic for everyday investors. Leveraged and/or Inverse funds serve very important functions for retail public investors. Most of the time, they provide the only way for a retail investor to cost effectively hedge a position or a certain exposure. For example, earlier this year my wife and I were waiting
As a programmer, a major source of frustration for me regarding many facets of our market relates to the fundamental lack of speed and automation endemic to our financial reporting pipelines. In a system which promotes and rewards algorithmic and high-frequency-trading, any position which would be reported and analyzed as a document and by a human would (and very likely is!) obsolete, potentially
Rule 1. All short sale shall be reported to finra by end of each settlement day. Rule 2. Finra shall make public report the day to day short sale by end of settlement day or the trading week. Rule 3. All unused loaned shares shall be reported to finra by end of settlement day. Rule 4. Finra shall make public the outstanding unused loaned share by end of settlement day of a trading week. Rule 5.
Summary
FINRA has adopted amendments to Rule 6730 (Transaction Reporting) to require members to append a modifier to a corporate bond trade that is part of a portfolio trade when reporting to FINRA’s Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE). The amendments to Rule 6730 will take effect on May 15, 2023.
The amended text of the rule is set forth in Attachment A.
Questions regarding this
FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue; the US has systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated SI reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address exploitable and ineffective reporting, they also leave gaps/loopholes that could compromise its purpose. The stability of the US markets and the confidence of its global investing
FINRA 21-19 is long overdue. The US markets are not trusted given the massive class of billionaires that make the markets and conduct back-end deals to manipulate the markets along with hedgefunds. Given these players have ultimate transparency on retail investors using payment for order flow (PFOF), it's only fair that retail investors can see the daily (or per transaction) movements of
On this episode, we delve into the results of FINRA's targeted review of certain member firms and their communications to retail investors regarding crypto products and services.
Summary
In February 2012, pursuant to an SEC order, FINRA established an accounting support fee (GASB Accounting Support Fee) to adequately fund the annual budget of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). The GASB Accounting Support Fee is collected on a quarterly basis from member firms that report trades to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB). Each member firm’s
