The investment landscape is currently regulated at a high level. While I understand the importance of ensuring that nefarious inversely schemes are kept at bay, the ones who do follow the guides, rules and laws should be allowed. These types of investments give me hope that I will actually be able to retire someday without reliance on social security which is a bloated beast. Funds such as
FINRA has implemented Form BR (Uniform Branch Office Registration Form) functionality enhancements for amendments to Form BR submissions for existing locations that will allow firms to account for the RSL designation by de-selecting a location’s registration for FINRA and the jurisdiction that accepts the RSL designation, while continuing to pre-select the location’s registration or notice filing in a jurisdiction or the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), or both, that has not accepted the RSL designation.
The Trading Examinations Unit (TEU) of the Market Regulation Department at FINRA is conducting a review of Alternative Trading Systems (ATS) operated by XYZ Firm (the Firm). For the purpose of this inquiry, the term “ATS” means an ATS operated by the Firm and/or any affiliate of the Firm that is utilized to route orders or other messages into or out of the ATS.
WASHINGTON—FINRA has ordered three firms—Edward Jones, Osaic Wealth, Inc. and Cambridge Investment Research, Inc.—to pay more than $8.2 million in restitution to customers who were harmed by the firms’ failures to provide available mutual fund sales charge waivers and fee rebates on mutual fund purchases. FINRA did not impose any fines in connection with these matters in recognition of each firm’s extraordinary cooperation with FINRA’s investigations.
A listing of general registration, membership, fingerprint processing, qualification examination fees.
Proposed Rule Change Relating to the Reporting of U.S. Treasury Securities to the Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine
The Trading Examinations Unit (TEU) of the Market Regulation Department at FINRA is conducting a review of Alternative Trading Systems (ATS) operated by XYZ Firm (the Firm). As part of this review, TEU is requesting the following information.
Q1. My firm has been granted an exemption from both the recording and reporting requirements of the OATS Rules and does not currently have an obligation to report to OATS. Does my firm’s OATS exemption extend to the Consolidated Audit Trail (“CAT”) recording and reporting requirements?
A1. No. Neither SEC Rule 613 nor the CAT NMS Plan provide exemptive relief to any class of broker-dealers. As
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reproposing to adopt Rule 13h-l and Form 13H under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Originally published for comment in 1991, the proposed rule establishes a system for identifying large-trader accounts and transactions, and places certain
Pursuant to a Securities and Exchange Commission request, FINRA makes short sale trade data publicly available for OTC trades in exchange-listed securities reported to a FINRA Trade Reporting Facility (TRF) and FINRA’s Alternative Display Facility (ADF). FINRA makes two types of files available: (1) Daily Short Sale Volume Files and (2) Monthly Short Sale Transaction Files (collectively, the
