The Funding Portals and Crowdfunding Offerings section of the 2022 Report on FINRA’s Risk Monitoring and Examination Activities (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) relevant regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) exam findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
There is no higher priority for FINRA than protecting senior investors from financial exploitation. Thus, every year we bring dozens of enforcement actions against brokers who harm senior investors, either through fraud schemes, conversion, churning of accounts, or otherwise. In this post, I want to highlight one pattern we have seen with increasing frequency in which certain brokers have
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As previously announced FINRA plans to replace digital certificates with Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for access to the TRAQS website in April of 2021.
A FINRA production User Acceptance Test (UAT) will occur on Saturday, March 6, 2021. Firms must register with FINRA Market Operations of their intent to participate in the UAT via an email to
NASD Rule 2510 - Discretionary Accounts - A member may use the negative response process under Rule 2510(d)(2)(A) to effectuate the transfer to another money market fund of customer free credit balances that have been returned to the member by a fund that has been terminated.
This Report on FINRA’s Risk Monitoring and Examination Activities (the Report) is designed to inform member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations. For selected regulatory obligations, the Report: (1) identifies the applicable rule and key related considerations for member firm compliance programs, (2) summarizes noteworthy findings from recent examinations and outlines effective practices that FINRA observed during its oversight, and (3) provides additional resources that may be helpful to member firms.
GUIDANCE
Alignment of NASD Rules with Regulation NMS
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Registered Representatives
Senior Management
Systems
Trading
ADF Trading Centers
Alternative Display Facility (ADF)
Regulation NMS
Trade Reporting
Executive Summary
On September 28, 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission
(Commission or SEC) approved
August 28, 2002
NASD plans to implement its next regular quarterly release for the third quarter of 2002 (2002.3) into the testing environment on September 30, 2002 and into the production environment on October 14, 2002. This release contains a variety of changes, some requiring coding by members and some that enhance functionality.
The 2002.3 release includes the following enhancements that
