FINRA Requests Comment on the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Its Payments for Market Making Rule
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Executive Summary
This Notice provides guidelines to members regarding the applicability of Exchange
What does it mean for something to be tax-advantaged, pre-tax or tax-deferred? Learn how these terms apply to different benefits and investments, including retirement accounts and health care benefits, and how to maximize your tax savings.
It is undemocratic and unAmerican to limit investors right to invest in financially sound investments such as leveraged and inverse products. These are necessary to ensure a level playing field for individual investors seeking diverse assets and non-correlated strategies versus the institutional giants that now dominate finance. It is unfair for the government to take away our rights to invest
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FINRA is issuing this Notice to provide guidance to member firms regarding suspicious activity monitoring and reporting obligations under FINRA Rule 3310 (Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Program).
Questions concerning this Notice should be directed to:
Victoria Crane, Associate General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, at (202) 728-8104; or
Blake Snyder, Senior Director, Member
FINRA Requests Comment on a Revised Proposal Regarding the Consolidated FINRA Rules Governing FINRA’s Membership Application Proceedings
Executive Summary
FINRA recently held annual elections to fill vacancies on its Regional Committees, Small Firm Advisory Committee (SFAC) and the National Adjudicatory Council (NAC). Additionally, at its December meeting, the FINRA Board of Governors (FINRA Board) also selected individuals to fill several appointed seats on the SFAC and NAC. This Notice lists the individuals recently elected and
This proposed regulation is backwards. Restricting the individual on their financial choices through regulation will only hurt individual investors and benefit wealth or institutional investors. These regulations stink of the wealthy and large institutional investors attempting to protect the market from retail investors. They thought for a long time that they held a monopoly on investment
Limiting LETFs to holding for one day, will greatly hinder my ability to save for retirement. I am a young investor with a long investment time horizon. Being forced out of LETFs would generate enormous capital gains that will financially ruin me. All I want is FINRA to do is to just make broker disclosures better.
Self reporting of short interest needs to stop, that is like someone self-reporting what crimes they commit and not having a background check. Short interest needs to be reported immediately through automated means (mandatory monitoring software controlled by a regulatory agency) and made available to the public immediately within an hour. If the software stops it should automatically stop all
