Summary
FINRA has adopted amendments to Rule 2231 (Customer Account Statements) to add eight new supplementary materials pertaining to:
compliance with Rule 4311 (Carrying Agreements);
the transmission of customer account statements to other persons or entities;
the use of electronic media to satisfy delivery obligations;
compliance with Rule 3150 (Holding of Customer Mail);
the
The Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud and Sanctions topic of the 2025 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, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
A vibrant and efficient capital-raising process fosters business expansion, job creation, innovation and economic growth. FINRA members play a critical role in facilitating capital formation for businesses of all sizes. FINRA supports the capital-raising process through appropriately tailored rules for its members that are designed for the benefit of all market participants.
FINRA Requests Comment on the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Its Carrying Agreements Rule
The 2022 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the Report) provides firms with information that may help inform their compliance programs. For each topical area covered, the Report identifies the relevant rule(s), highlights key considerations for member firms’ compliance programs, summarizes noteworthy findings from recent examinations, outlines effective practices that FINRA observed during its oversight, and provides additional resources that may be helpful to member firms in reviewing their supervisory procedures and controls and fulfilling their compliance obligations.
SEC Approves New FINRA Rule 4524 Requiring the Filing of Supplemental FOCUS Information and a Supplementary Schedule to the Statement of Income (Loss) Page of the FOCUS Report
In the Showtime television series “Billions,” the ambitious U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades, played by Paul Giamatti, is certain that a fictional hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod, played by actor Damien Lewis, is guilty of insider trading.
“What have I done wrong? Really? Except make money. Succeed,” Axelrod says in his defense in an episode.
There isn’t a clear hero and villain in the television
Investment accounts are those that hold stocks, bonds, funds and other securities, as well as cash. A key difference between an investment account and a bank account is that the value of assets in an investment account fluctuates and can, in fact, decline.
I see no reason why a financial advisor should need permission from a broker/dealer before owning crypto assets. This has nothing to do with their duties as advisors.Separately, allow me to say wow. How much time and energy did staffers at FINRA spend on the excessive verbiage that went into this notice and all the deliberations over proposing such a silly and unnecessary rule? You guys need to
FINRA Requests Comment on Proposed Amendments to Rules Governing Communications with the Public
