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Good morning. First let me thank Martin Baily for the invitation to talk with you this morning. Martin, I also want to commend you for the work you do here in Washington to bring about a greater understanding of business and the economy and, specifically of financial regulation.
It’s a pleasure to be here today to participate in this important discussion on the role of
I am disturbed and appalled to hear that FINRA is planning to prohibit my ability to invest in leveraged and inverse funds. I adamantly oppose to any regulator deciding how I should invest! I am angered by this arrogant and tyrannical effort to restrict how a consumer should invest his/her money. This is a clear and coordinated attack on the retail consumer to place the wealthy at a clear
Sec. 3.1 Any action required or permitted by law to be taken at any meeting of the stockholder of FINRA Regulation may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, is signed by the holder of the outstanding stock.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2008-046 eff. Nov. 6, 2008.
Amended by SR-NASD-97-71 eff
To whom it may concern,
Please do NOT restrict access to public investments to only your preferred group of wealthy individuals. As a non-accredited retail investor it is incredibly frustrating to be denied access to the same investments that other people have access to simply because my portfolio isn't large enough. The proposed regulations only serve to prohibit retail investors such
Please. I beg you. We, the public, are not your children. Please stop treating us as such.
If we have funds sufficient to invest, then we have shown that we have sufficient wherewithal to read and understand a contract. Let us.
Several years ago I was granted shares under an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, through eTrade. Upon one grant, I observed that the stock was on an upward run. I sought to
"However, important regulatory concerns arise when investors trade complex products without understanding their unique characteristics and risks." Like the complex derivatives that the large financial institutions created leading up to the Global Financial Crisis and collapse of the housing bubble? Until you remove the ability of institutional investors to be excessively leveraged with
Executive Summary
In conjunction with the amendments to Regulation T (Reg. T) which are described in Notice to Members 96-37, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) is also requesting comments on proposed changes to Regulations G, T, and U. Reg. T covers extensions of credit by and to broker/dealers; Reg. U covers extensions of credit by banks; and Reg. G covers extensions of
The NASD would like to thank the Subcommittee for this opportunity to testify on organized crime in the securities markets, the scope of the problem and our efforts to address it.
By Robert Cook, President and CEO, and Greg Ruppert, Executive Vice President, Member Supervision, FINRA. From 2021 to 2024, the SEC brought enforcement actions against numerous FINRA member firms for recordkeeping violations involving off-channel communications (OCCs) and settled them on substantially similar terms. In January 2025, the SEC brought additional OCC-related actions against other member firms but settled these on significantly less burdensome terms. A group of firms settling before 2025 petitioned the SEC to modify their settlements to align with the January firm settlements. The SEC recently denied this petition.
Revision to Net Capital Treatment of Clearing Agreement Penalty Clauses
