The Neutral Corner—Volume 4, 2019
Mission Statement
Year End Message
Anatomy of a Securities Mediation: What to Expect, How to Prepare and How to Win (by Jeff Abrams, FINRA Arbitrator and Mediator)
Introducing Previously Undisclosed Documents or Witnesses Under FINRA Rule 12514 (by Danielle Williams and Steeve Encaoua, FINRA Office of Dispute Resolution, Southeast Region)
Maintaining
As noted in Regulatory Notice 10-22 (Obligations of Broker-Dealers to Conduct Reasonable Investigations in Regulation D Offerings), as part of their obligations under FINRA Rule 2111 (Suitability) and supervisory requirements under FINRA Rule 3110 (Supervision), firms must conduct a “reasonable investigation” by evaluating “the issuer and its management; the business prospects of the issuer; the assets held by or to be acquired by the issuer; the claims being made; and the intended use of proceeds of the offering.”
FINRA Requests Comment on a Proposal to Amend Rule 3110 (Supervision) to Provide Firms the Option to Conduct Remote Inspections of Offices and Locations That Meet Specified Criteria
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Executive Summary
The Government Securities Act Amendments of 1993 (GSAA) eliminated the statutory limitations on NASD® authority to apply sales-practice rules to transactions in exempted securities, including government securities, other than municipals. On August 20, 1996, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved amendments implementing the expanded sales-practice authority
You not regulators should be able to choose the public
investments that are right for you and your family.
Public investments should be available to all of the public,
not just the privileged.
It is very important that you express your views in your own
wordsyour comments are more likely to be taken seriously
by FINRA if they reflect your own experience and perspective.
Not only do
You not regulators should be able to choose the public investments that are right for you and your family. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. It is very important that you express your views in your own wordsyour comments are more likely to be taken seriously by FINRA if they reflect your own experience and perspective. Not only do you have the
It has come to my attention that FINRA issued a notice on 8 March 2022 regarding certain securities with simple inverse or leveraged price movements.
Designation of these products as complex securities is completely unwarranted as any complexities in the structuring of these securities is no more relevant to investor, that the structuring of any other ETF. The price action is not complex to
You not regulators should be able to choose the public
investments that are right for you and your family.
Public investments should be available to all of the public,
not just the privileged.
It is very important that you express your views in your own
wordsyour comments are more likely to be taken seriously
by FINRA if they reflect your own experience and perspective.
Not only do
I am an adult, and can accept the responsibilities of my investing decisions. I don't need a regulator to tell me how to invest my personal finances. The lottery is perfectly legal and ran by governments as a tax on the poor.
Leveraged and inverse funds are an important part of my investment strategy. They don't take a degree in rocket science to understand. As with investing in
