I strongly support FINRA's mission to protect investors from ensuring an open, honest, and fair securities market, a key piece of which is striving to align investor needs and goals with product choice. It is probably or even likely that "complex" products are not appropriate for most investors, and to that end these products are broadly not used by most investors. Few defined
I've been trading and investing for nearly ten years. This is not the first time I've seen proposed restrictions to leverage ETF trading. I'm disappointed to see this coming up again. The last time it appeared was around the same time the crypto market was starting. Given the size, mess, and potential for fraud and chaos that crypto is presenting I find it infuriating
I partially trade with a US broker in order to have more access and freedom in my choice of investment vehicles. Making 'complex' funds only freely accessible to the elite and exorbitantly rich (like in the EU), whilst creating more and more hoops for regular people, will only limit opportunities for regular smaller investors. I should have the freedom to do with my own money as I wish
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Electronic Trading in the Bond Markets
Good morning. Thank you [Mark Monahan] for that introduction. I’m pleased to have this opportunity to join today’s conversation on the increasing automation of fixed income markets.
Many of us have been in the securities business long enough to appreciate how the first electronic trading system—the NASDAQ quotation system that was
As announced by the Board of the Federal Reserve System in the Federal Register on October 28, 2021, FINRA will collect detailed data on depository institutions' daily transactions of marketable U.S. Treasury securities and of the debt and MBS issued by U.S. federal government agencies including government-sponsored enterprises (agencies) via its Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE
Notice of Annual Meeting of FINRA Firms and Proxy
I am in support of FINRA being in control of the short interest compilation and most fine grained dissemination. I am in support of the most extreme reporting conditions. Reporting should be daily, there is too much time for them to change their books. There is also zero reason they can't report their holdings daily, they have computers, it's not like they actually do anything without
Ola Persson is Senior Vice President and head of Transparency Services. He is responsible for all business, technology and operational aspects related to FINRA's fixed income and equity trade reporting and quotation facilities (TRACE, ADF, ORF, OTCBB and the TRFs).
Mr. Persson joined FINRA in 2004, with responsibilities for the fixed income (TRACE) program. Prior to joining FINRA, Mr.
Executive Summary
The purpose of this Election Notice is to notify firms of the upcoming elections to fill vacancies on the FINRA Regional Committees, and the mailing of ballots to eligible firms.
As detailed below, the following seats are contested:
Midwest Region Committee, District 8 representative
North Region Committee, District 9 representative
South Region Committee, District 7
