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We do not need more regulation. We need less and financial advisors should be allowed to own digital assets!
I write in opposition to the proposal.If I understand correctly that “Investment-related activity” means pertaining to financial assets, including securities, crypto assets, commodities, derivatives (such as futures and swaps), currency,banking, real estate or insurance, this seems too broad. If I understand that the proposal would also require B/D's to approve each transaction in writing
Dear Ms. Mitchell,I am the owner of a Registered Investment Advisory firm in Houston, Texas, with five employees and a registered representative of an unaffiliated FINRA member firm.My position is that rule 3290 in regulatory notice 25–05 would duplicate oversight, and the inefficiency is likely to create unnecessary complexity for RAA’s, unaffiliated Broker Dealers, and most importantly, valued
Testimony by Senior Vice President of Investor Education and President of the FINRA Investor Education Foundation Gerri Walsh Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs United States Senate
Please do not restrict public purchase access to Defined Outcome ETFs, ETNs, ELNs, Market-Linked CDs, Structured Notes, Principal Protected Notes, Derivatives hedging ETFs, Opportunistic/Tactical Multi-Strategy ETFs--all of which serve to REDUCE portfolio risk. Restricting access stifles liquidity, thereby increasing volatility creating even more risk to market function and more risk to investors
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
FINRA is a not-for-profit, self-regulatory organization (SRO) dedicated to promoting investor protection and market integrity in a manner that facilitates vibrant capital markets. One of FINRA’s tools for achieving this objective is fair and effective enforcement of our member firms’ compliance with securities laws and regulations.
FINRA’s highest priority when it identifies misconduct is to
(a) Responsibility to Expedite Customer's Request
(1) When a customer whose securities account is carried by a member (the "carrying member") wishes to transfer securities account assets, in whole or in specifically designated part, to another member (the "receiving member") and gives authorized instructions to the receiving member, both members must expedite
The 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the Report) provides member firms with insight into findings from the recent oversight activities of FINRA’s Member Supervision, Market Regulation and Enforcement programs (collectively, regulatory operations programs).
