Use your regulatory powers to stop insider trading. Use your regulatory powers to stop inflation. Use your regulatory powers to stop Musk buying Twitter, or other monopolistic situations of which there are many. Stop harassing the small investor. You remind me of the police cracking down on jay-walking. Try to use your powers for something worthwhile, instead of on petty populist actionism like
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Dear regulators: I OPPOSE RESTRICTIONS TO MY RIGHT TO INVEST!! I believe that I should be able to choose public investments that are right for me and that they should be made available to everyone. I take responsibility for my actions and decisions in all aspects of my life and do not want the government to limit or restrict my investment decisions. I use leverage and inverse funds in part to
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Shubham Agrawal, a Senior Security Engineer with FINRA, discovered that the Amazon EC2 Autoscaling service lacked PassRole validation check for one of its commands, CreateLaunchConfiguration. This can lead to “privilege escalation” in the AWS cloud, which is gaining elevated access or jumping from a lower privileged role to higher privileged one. This blog discusses the
Short interest reporting by all of these entities should have complete transparency. Failures to report on possible FTD’s, never delivering those shares or marking short positions as long should result in repercussions equal to the actions. Small fines or as they can be referred “the cost of doing business” for some of these funds or entities are unacceptable. Reporting should be even more
The Communications with the Public section of the 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (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.
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On January 7, 1997, in Release No. 34-38132, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved NASD® rules permitting the quotation of Direct Participation Programs (DPPs or limited partnerships) in the OTC Bulletin Board® Service (OTCBB) and requiring all
Short interest reporting by all of these entities should have complete transparency. Failures to report on possible FTD’s, never delivering those shares or marking short positions as long should result in repercussions equal to the actions. Small fines or as they can be referred “the cost of doing business” for some of these funds or entities are unacceptable. Reporting should be even more
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As prepared for deliveryToday’s conversation on disrupting the cycle of financial fraud is important and timely—and we are grateful to have been able to convene such a distinguished group of regulators, policymakers, academics, law enforcement agencies, advocacy groups and financial firms here today. You all play a vital role in protecting investors, advocating for victims and working to stop
