Publication Date: February 23, 2023
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18a-3 Non-cleared security-based swap margin requirements for security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants for which there is not a prudential regulator.
18a-3(a) Every security-based swap dealer and major security-based swap participant for
Firms could be vulnerable to a newly discovered social engineering scheme in which bad actors trick customer support personnel into downloading and executing malware. This Alert describes the scheme and provides recommendations to help firms protect themselves from the threat.
It has come to our attention that under the regulations being considered by FINRA I may not be able to buy leveraged and inverse funds like TQQQ, SQQQ and others. I would like yo urge you to NOT implement these regulations. These funds are important to my and my husbands investment strategies and restricting these funds will hurt both us and others we have encouraged over the years to use to
FINRA,
A little bit of background:
I am self taught in the domain of investment finance. The extent of formal financial education were a handful of economics classes and an accounting class in college. Year to Day, I am beating the S&P500 in my self-directed brokerage account because I taught myself how financial markets work with various resources publicly available.
My comment:
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I strongly oppose the proposed rule changes that would restrict or even block access of certain investments including leveraged and inversed funds.
The decision of choosing investment vehicles can only be made by individual investors, not a small group of regulators. To protect the interest of individual investors, the regulatory should work toward ensuring fairness by enabling equal access to
In late May, certain amendments to FINRA's margin rule, Rule 4210, went into effect to address a significant source of potential systemic risk and risk to FINRA member firms. The amendments introduced specific margin requirements related to covered agency transactions. On this episode, we learn more about the purpose of the change and what firms need to think about to ensure compliance.
On June 25, 2024, Progress Software released the MOVEit Transfer Critical Security Alert Bulletin (the Alert Bulletin) for CVE-2024-5806, a newly identified Critical Vulnerability, which was described as an Improper Authentication vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer, Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) module and could lead to Authentication Bypass.
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The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Fed.) is requesting comments on proposed changes to Regulation T (Reg. T), which covers extensions of credit by and to broker/dealers.
Afternoon,
I was recently notified about some potential regulation that may impact the ability for ordinary people to invest in complex investments, particularly leveraged funds.
This is troubling to me. In the last 5 years I have been studying investment strategies and just recently took the series 65 with the hopes of helping other people with their investment goals. My studies have had a
Leveraged ETFs are a valuable tool investors utilize to deploy certain strategies. While the risk is amplified, the return can be as well. Further, while some argue the risk is too great, investors have the right to take risks within their individual risk appetite
