Re: FINRA Proposed Rule 3290Proposed Rule 3290 does not address the transition from Rule 3270 to the proposed rule. Specifically, to what extent and for how long would a previous notification and approval of an outside business activity under Rule 3270 satisfy the requirements of the proposed rule? Previous notifications and approvals under Rule 3270 should continue to be
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As the financial industry continues to evolve, it's important to stay ahead of emerging risks and trends. On this episode of FINRA Unscripted, we sit down with the leaders of FINRA's new Strategic Intelligence and Analytics team to discuss how they are working to identify and analyze these industry developments.
Each year, FINRA publishes its Annual Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter to highlight issues of importance to FINRA's regulatory programs.
With over 20,000 companies whose shares trade either on a U.S. exchange or in over-the-counter markets, there’s ample room for confusion. Fundamental research and an understanding about the way in which stocks are listed and traded can go a long way toward helping you make sound investment decisions.
Remarks From the National Compliance Outreach Program for Broker-Dealers
It is elitist and violates freedom of choice to prevent an investor to do what he or she wants with his or her money, and why does FINRA pretend to know best, which is extremely paternalistic? The securities laws already preclude non accredited investors from participating in private placements, which provides more opportunity for the wealthy. All these preventative rules do that prevent is
(a) No member shall permit a customer to engage in extended hours trading unless the member has furnished to the customer, individually, in paper or electronic form, a disclosure statement highlighting the risks specific to extended hours trading. In addition, any member that permits customers either to open accounts on-line in which such customer may engage in extended hours trading or to
Trading on securities exchanges and alternative trading systems (ATSs) has evolved to the point that these venues now execute electronically the vast majority of their volume. This increased automation of trading and the popularity of sponsored or direct access arrangements where broker-dealers allow customers to trade in those markets using the broker-dealers' market participant identifiers
