Executive Summary
The purpose of this Election Notice is to notify FINRA small firm members of the distribution of ballots to elect one New York Region representative to the Small Firm Advisory Committee (SFAC). FINRA small firm members1 in the New York Region as of the close of business on Friday, October 21, 2022, are eligible to vote in these elections.
Ballots are due by Wednesday
September 19, 2022FINRA President and CEO Robert Cook and Vice President of Member Relations and Education Kayte Toczylowski are joined by senior staff to discuss the SEC’s Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) and Form CRS.Speakers:Robert Cook, FINRA President and Chief Executive OfficerMeredith Cordisco, Associate General Counsel, Office of General CounselNicole McCafferty, Senior Director,
Jennifer Keating is FINRA’s Vice President of Total Rewards. In this capacity she designs, implements and manages FINRA’s compensation, recognition and benefits programs aimed at attracting and retaining skilled talent. Ms. Keating has over 30 years of experience in the human resources field, most of which have been spent with FINRA. She is a co-chair of FINRA’s Pension/401(k) Committee
SummaryOver the past 18 months, U.S. securities markets have experienced dramatic volatility. At the same time, individual investors entered the markets in unprecedented numbers—often through self-directed accounts at online brokers—drawn in part by reduced barriers to entry, such as low- and no-commission trading and the ability to purchase fractional shares. Increased retail market
Summary
FINRA requests comment on a proposed change to its current policy relating to the assignment of OTC symbols to unlisted equity securities. Specifically, FINRA is considering whether it should begin assigning OTC symbols to unlisted equity securities that do not have a valid CUSIP identifier, in the limited circumstance where a member firm demonstrates its best efforts to obtain a CUSIP
Finra Question 1: What implementation period would be appropriate to provide members with sufficient time to make the systems changes necessary to comply with this requirement? My Answer: Change needs to happen as soon as possible Finra Question 2: FINRA is considering whether daily or weekly short interest position reporting would be preferable. What are commenters’ views on the preferred
To whom it may concern, I am writing in support of the proposed changes applied in Reg. Notice 21-19. Particularly as an individual investor in the US financial markets, I am strongly in support of daily aggregation of short interest reporting. I strongly support increased granularity to the account level position reporting. I am adamantly in support of increasing comprehensive synthetic short
Hi I believe that short selling of any kind is bad, while showing more data is a positive step. Shorting still has too much scope for bad practice. There’s a conflict of interests as soon as a party shorts a company. Too many of the main players in today’s market have ties in all areas of the market. Allowing them to manipulate and drive theses companies further down to there benefit. I could
I request that ALL shorting must be reported daily, and that ALL dark pool trading must be reported daily. Also all dark pool trading MUST be bought and sold within the dark pool, or all LIT trading is bought and sold in the LIT market. Not trading all the buy orders into the dark pool and sells into the LIT market. Honestly the dark pool should not even exist. Shorting needs to be redone as well
I'd like to point out your "What We Do" section on your website. Many of retail investors are well aware that you actually do nothing at all in the grand scheme of things. You give out measly fines to make it appear like you're doing your job, when those same institutions that you fined made billions of dollars in profit. You may write rules, but you certainly do not enforce
