January 31, 2012
Dear Executive Representative/Chief Compliance Officer:
FINRA® is publishing its
2012 Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter
to highlight new and continuing areas of significance to our regulatory programs, including topics of heightened importance to FINRA's Member Regulation, Market Regulation and Enforcement Departments, and the
TO: NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
BACKGROUND
On January 11, 1988, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the Order Confirmation Transaction (OCT) service, a new communications enhancement for the NASDAQ System.
The SEC granted approval for a period of 90 days under the accelerated approval provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. During this 90-day period, the SEC
GUIDANCE
Supervisory Controls
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KEY TOPICS
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Registered Representatives
Senior Management
Trading
Account Name/Designation Changes
Institutional Securities Activities
Rule 3012 (Supervisory Control Systems)
Rule 3110 (Books and Records)
Supervision
Supervisory Control Procedures
Executive Summary
On September 30, 2004, the
As of March 27, 1995, the following 34 issues joined the Nasdaq National Market®, bringing the total number of issues to 3,740:
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Senior Management
Corporate Finance
Institutional
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Systems
Trading
Symbol
Company
Entry Date
SOES Execution Level
CYTOR
Cytogen Corp. (Rts 1/31/97)
2/24/95
200
CYTOW
Cytogen Corp. (
SEC Approves New Supervision Rules
To whom it may concern,
It should be a right not a privilege to invest in cryptos, etfs, and other financial vehicles. Creating tests to disqualify certain individuals is a form of elitism, which we have enough of already in this corporate state of America. Crypto should be considered a valid form of investing, and even the little guys should get a shot at getting in early, and diversifying their
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
The ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new 110,000-square-foot NASD Operations Center, which will serve the NASD membership and the NASDAQ market, will be September 17, 1986. The facility, located 18 miles north of Washington, D.C., in Rockville, Maryland, will support 200-million-share trading days and provide the first complete, back-up computer
Effective liquidity management is a critical control function at broker-dealers and across firms in the financial sector. Failure to manage liquidity has contributed to both individual firm failures and, when widespread, systemic crises.
In adverse circumstances, whether the result of firm-specific events or systemic credit events, the cost of funding a broker-dealer’s operations could become
A firm’s journey to the cloud varied based on a given firm’s specific facts and circumstances. Several firms noted that cloud migration was not a simple, linear process, even with adequate preparation, and there was no easy formulaic way to conduct a migration, given the unique circumstances of each firm. Despite the difference in each firm’s journey, however, some common themes emerged regarding
SUGGESTED ROUTING
Senior Management
Executive Representatives
Institutional
Internal Audit
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Research
Systems
Executive Summary
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is soliciting comment on temporary rule amendments to SEC Rule 17a-5
