Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system that uses its own currency, called bitcoin, to transact business around the world. Bitcoins are not issued by banks or governments—indeed, the bitcoin platform was designed to offer an alternative to national currencies, like the dollar, and commodity-based currencies such as gold or silver coins.
Dear Regulators!
It would be a huge mistake to limit investors abilities to use the various leveraged and inverse leveraged ETFs currently available as components of a balanced asset allocation. For long-term and short-term investors these vehicles have an important role to play in both mitigating risk and providing capital appreciation. Please do not put addition burdens on small retail
FINRA requires firms to create and maintain written business continuity plans (BCPs) relating to an emergency or significant business disruption. Rule 4370—FINRA's emergency preparedness rule — spells out the required BCP procedures. A firm's BCP must be appropriate to the scale and scope of its business.BCP procedures must be reasonably designed so the firm can meet its existing
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently approved changes to Rule 17a-11 that eliminate certain burdensome filing requirements. The requirements to give notice basically are unchanged. These amendments are the first major revisions to the rule in more than 20 years,
Executive Summary
FINRA has adopted new rules to address brokers with a significant history of misconduct and the broker-dealers that employ them.1 The new rules:
allow a Hearing Officer to impose conditions or restrictions on the activities of a Respondent member firm or Respondent associated person, and require the member firm employing a Respondent associated person to
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Geetha Ramachandran has spent her entire career working in the technology industry, and she’s passionate about innovation and finding solutions to complex problems. At FINRA, she leads teams in building and delivering enterprise solutions with a focus on automation and development operations. In part one of the three-part series, Tech Journeys: Women in Technology & the Evolution of the Industry, Geetha gives us a snapshot of her personal technology journey and how she’s kept up with innovations.
The purpose of this Notice is to advise FINRA member firms that FINRA is temporarily increasing the maintenance margin requirements for auction rate securities pursuant to NYSE Rule 431(f)(8)(A) and NASD Rule 2520(f)(8)(A).
The Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud and Sanctions topic of the 2024 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
