GUIDANCEContinuing EducationSUGGESTED ROUTINGKEY TOPICSContinuing EducationLegal & ComplianceRegistrationSenior ManagementContinuing EducationFirm ElementExecutive SummaryThe Securities Industry/Regulatory Council on Continuing Education (Council) has issued the annual Firm Element Advisory, a guide for firms to use when developing their continuing education Firm Element training plans.
I’d like to voice my support for Short Interest Position Reporting Enhancements. In today’s digital market and environment, information is the most valuable resource retail investors (and others) can have to make responsible decisions with their finances. More frequent and accurate reporting are important… as well as penalties for non-reporting that are MORE punitive than the potential gain from
The United States if a free country. All regulatory agencies have a responsibility to protect our freedoms, not restrict them. All financial regulators have a responsibility to ensure investors are adequately informed, but they have no right to restrict our freedom to invest freely as we choose. By limiting access to investments, you limit innovation and also subject retail investors to the
We need more accountability for short positions in the market. There is far too much collusion and conflicts of interest that are not good for our markets/economy as a whole. I hope FINRA is able to provide more accountability by passing more rules for institutions, hedge funds and big players as a whole. All information regarding our markets should be public knowledge. Short positions, volumes,
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REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The NASD requests comments on proposed amendments to Article III, Section 5(b) and Article IV, Sections 3 and 4 of the NASD By-Laws, and Article IV, Section 5 of the
By Robert Cook, President and CEO, and Greg Ruppert, Executive Vice President, Member Supervision, FINRA. From 2021 to 2024, the SEC brought enforcement actions against numerous FINRA member firms for recordkeeping violations involving off-channel communications (OCCs) and settled them on substantially similar terms. In January 2025, the SEC brought additional OCC-related actions against other member firms but settled these on significantly less burdensome terms. A group of firms settling before 2025 petitioned the SEC to modify their settlements to align with the January firm settlements. The SEC recently denied this petition.
On behalf of NASD, I would like to thank Chairman Sarbanes, Ranking Member Gramm, and the members of the Senate Banking Committee for this opportunity to testify.
FINRA announced today that it has promoted Omer Meisel to Executive Vice President of the National Cause and Financial Crimes Detection Program (NCFC), effective October 2.
How are we (the public retail) supposed to believe any information reported is accurate, when fines for breaking any rules take years to resolve and are minuscule when compared to the money that is being made off of defrauding the little guy? When the people lying are friends with the people who are supposed to keep them in check, all it takes is a little kick back to make it all go away. Lame or
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Statutory Disqualification
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Statutory Disqualification
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NASD Regulation, Inc. (NASD RegulationSM) has commenced an initiative to make publicly available the text of statutory disqualification decisions (
