This page provides general guidance regarding municipal advisor regulation. Please refer to the SEC Office of Municipal Securities web page and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board website for complete information.The SEC's final municipal advisor registration and recordkeeping Rules 15Ba1-1 through 15Ba1-8 and 15Bc4-1 were effective July 1, 2014. Firms that are engaged, or plan to
FINRA’s Board of Governors held its fifth and final meeting of the year on December 6-7. During the meeting, the Board approved two rule proposals and FINRA’s 2024 proposed budget , and continued discussions around FINRA’s financials, including expenses and the drawdown of reserves. The Board also appointed new members to the National Adjudicatory Council (NAC) and the Small Firm Advisory Committee (SFAC), and previewed the 2024 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report.
Sec. 11.5 (a) The Board may make such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with law, the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, or these By-Laws, concerning the issuance, transfer, and registration of shares of capital stock of FINRA Regulation. The Board may appoint, or authorize any principal officer to appoint, one or more transfer agents or one or more
Conflicts of interest can arise in any relationship where a duty of care or trust exists between two or more parties, and, as a result, are widespread across the financial services industry. While the existence of a conflict does not, per se, imply that harm to one party’s interests will occur, the history of finance is replete with examples of situations where financial institutions did not
For the period of 3/1/2025 through 3/31/2025AAMBIT AMERICA INAMBIT AMERICA INC.NEW YORK, NY, USARESIGNEDARCHSTONE CAPITAARCHSTONE CAPITAL, LLCWASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATESRESIGNED ARCVIEW CAPITAL,ARCVIEW CAPITAL, LLCNAME CHANGED TO: ARCSTONE SECURITIES LLCARCVIEW CAPITAL,ARCSTONE SECURITIES LLCNEW NAME OF: ARCVIEW CAPITAL, LLCATM EXECUTION LLATM EXECUTION
(a) No member or person associated with a member shall cause to be executed an order to buy or sell a security or a related financial instrument when such member or person associated with a member causing such order to be executed has material, non-public market information concerning an imminent block transaction in that security, a related financial instrument or a security underlying the
The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) lifted the ban on the trading of futures on single securities and on narrow-based security indices (security futures). Security futures are regulated both as securities and as future contracts, and must be traded on trading facilities and through intermediaries registered with both the SEC and CFTC.
Security futures involve a high
(a) Interested FINRA Staff
Except as counsel or a witness in a proceeding or as provided in the Rule 9550 Series, Interested FINRA Staff is prohibited from advising an Adjudicator regarding a decision or otherwise participating in a decision of an Adjudicator. An Adjudicator is prohibited from advising Interested FINRA Staff regarding a decision or otherwise participating in a decision
Two or more members under substantially the same ownership or control shall be required to pay (1) only one personnel assessment and one system processing fee annually for those individuals employed by more than one of the members; (2) only one fee annually for each branch office registered at the same location by more than one of the members; and (3) one registration fee, one fingerprint
Sec. 8.5 (a) The Board may make such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with law, the Certificate of Incorporation, or these By-Laws, concerning the issuance, transfer, and registration of shares of capital stock of FINRA Dispute Resolution. The Board may appoint, or authorize any principal officer to appoint, one or more transfer agents or one or more
