Summary
Several firms have recently informed FINRA that malicious actors are using registered representatives’ names and other information to establish websites (“imposter websites”) that appear to be the representatives’ personal sites and are also calling and directing potential customers to use these imposter websites. Imposters may be using these sites to collect personal information from
INFORMATIONAL
Instant Messaging
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Legal and Compliance
Senior Management
Operations
Trading and Market Making
Electronic Communications
Communications with the Public
Recordkeeping
Executive Summary
NASD is clarifying for members their supervisory obligations and recordkeeping requirements
(a) For each security in which an ADF Trading Center displays a bid and offer (for Registered Reporting ADF Market Makers), or a bid or offer (for Registered Reporting ADF ECNs), in the ADF, it must:
(1) Provide other ADF Trading Centers direct electronic access, as defined below;
(2) Provide registered broker-dealers that are not ADF Trading Centers direct electronic access and allow for
(a)(1) Unless otherwise permitted by FINRA, a member shall not enter into an agreement for the carrying, on an omnibus or fully disclosed basis, of any customer account in which securities transactions can be effected ("customer account" or "account"), unless such agreement is with a carrying firm that is a FINRA member. An introducing firm that acts as an intermediary for
GUIDANCE
District Elections
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Executive Representatives
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Registration
Senior Management
District Elections
Executive Summary
The purpose of this Special Notice to Members is to inform
Rules and procedures applicable to members seeking to hire or retain a person who becomes "subject to disqualification," and for members that themselves become subject to disqualification
AWS makes it easy to set up a REST service with authentication using Lambda, the AWS API Gateway, and IAM. Using these technologies through AWS doesn’t require hosting cost for the Lambda and API Gateway service and you pay per Lambda call. You also benefit from Lambda auto-scaling depending on the request volume and concurrency.
XPP stands for eXtreme Parallel Processing. For larger systems with more complicated code, XPP helps achieve parallelism on the cluster at the lowest possible level i.e. individual queries to achieve maximum possible utilization.
In 2009 FINRA conducted a voluntary firm survey to determine preparedness for a pandemic in light of current events involving influenza A (H1N1). This survey continues FINRA's efforts to assist firms with business continuity planning by facilitating the exchange of information.
Summary
FINRA is publishing this Notice to assist firms with making accurate submissions in connection with requests for Federal Reserve Board Regulation T, SEA Rule 15c3-3 and FINRA Rule 4210 extensions of time around holidays when exchanges or banks are closed. The schedule included in this Notice specifies the due dates for filing requests of extensions of time prior to and after a holiday
