June 29, 2001
Below is a list of fields and accepted values that are reported to OATS on the New Order Reports. Please compare the accepted values listed for the fields below with your traders and technical staff to verify that your procedures and systems comply with the information provided below.
Received Method Codes
Indicate whether the order was received electronically or non-
NASD is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to establish Interpretive Material 1013-1 (“IM-1013-1”), a membership waive-in process for certain New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) member organizations, and Interpretive Material Section 4(e) to Schedule A of the By-Laws, a membership application fee waiver for those NYSE member
INFORMATIONAL
Membership And Registration Rules
Series 24, 26, And 62 Modified
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Registration
Training
Corporate Securities Limited Representative (Series 62)
General Securities Principal (Series 24)
Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Limited Principal
Proposed Rule Change to Amend FINRA Rule 2360 (Options) Position Limits
<p>The limited supervisory functions that can be properly delegated to registered representatives also may be assigned to persons registered as Foreign Associates under NASD Rule 1100. Foreign Associates, however, may not perform the functions that require a principal registration.</p>
ACTION REQUESTED
Rule Modernization Project
Comment Period Expires: July 2, 2001
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Executive Representatives
Legal & Compliance
Senior Management
Rule Review
Rule Modernization
Executive Summary
Over the past several years, NASD Regulation, Inc. (NASD Regulation) has conducted a comprehensive review of many of the National
SUGGESTED ROUTING
Suggested Routing
Senior Management
Advertising
Continuing Education
Corporate Finance
Executive Representatives
Government Securities
Institutional
Insurance
Internal Audit
Legal & Compliance
Municipal
Mutual Fund
Operations
Exemptive relief is granted based on the following considerations: 1) the contribution was inadvertent, de minimis, and was returned; and (2) the contribution was made to a candidate for public office who never had the opportunity to influence the award of municipal securities business (Candidate was not an elected official, was never elected to the office for which he was a candidate, and he died during the election campaign).
An exemption is granted based on consideration of the MSRB’s published interpretation of Rule G-37 regarding mergers of corporations in the municipal securities industry3 and on your representation that Individual will not be engaged in helping Firm A obtain municipal securities business or engaged in municipal securities representative activities before September 24, 2001, when the two-year ban under Rule G-37 would otherwise expire.
Proposed Rule Change to Adopt FINRA Rules 6434, 6437, 6450 and 6460