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The Firm Short Positions and Fails-to-Receive in Municipal Securities section of the 2022 Report on FINRA’s Risk Monitoring and Examination Activities (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) relevant regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) exam findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
NASD Clarifies Rules
Governing RR/IAs
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Executive Summary
On May 15, 1994, the NASD® issued Special Notice to Members 94-44, , which clarified the applicability of Article III, Section 40 of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice to investment advisory activities of registered representatives (
Testimony Before Employee Benefits Security Administration Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans
Effective Date: May 1, 1995
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In early 1993, six self-regulatory organizations (the American Stock Exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., the New York Stock Exchange, and the Philadelphia Stock
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Portfolio Margin Program
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Executive Summary
On February 12, 2007, NASD filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for immediate effectiveness a rule change to amend
TO: All NASD Members and Level 2 and Level 3 Subscribers
On Tuesday, January 19, 1988, the following four issues are scheduled to join the NASDAQ National Market System, bringing the total number of issues in NASDAQ/NMS to 3,040:
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What kind of nonsense is this - the two companies that run the two leveraged ETFs I own both sent me email alerts about FINRA's potential rule changes this morning, urging me to submit comments on the rules, which have a deadline of only 5 days away?!? That's so unfair it's like FINRA doesn't care what investors have to say, their minds are made up. Consider
It is Arbitrary and Unworkable: FINRAs definition of complex products is so broad, arbitrary and vague that it could ensnare a vast number of commonly used public securities. It upends Our Regulatory System: Under the long-standing disclosure-based system, investors have the right to decide which public equities, bonds and funds they want to buy. The FINRA plan upends that principle, giving
When Regulation NMS was adopted, the SEC and market observers did not recognize ex-clearing as a significant loophole. In the original crafting of Regulation SHO (implemented in 2005), the industry told the SEC that ex-cleared trades were "rare". As such ex-cleared trades were exempt from much of the short selling regulations. Dark pool trades (ATS and OTC) in 2021 now make up a
