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Executive Summary
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted amendments to certain rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Act) that apply to transactions in low-priced securities traded in the over-the-counter market. Specifically, the SEC amended Rule 15c2-6, which makes it
FINRA is publishing its quarterly OTCBB/OTC Equities High Price Dissemination List for the first quarter of 2021. This updated list of OTC equity securities eligible for trade report dissemination for trades of fewer than 100 shares is effective as of June 25, 2021. To view changes, visit the Daily List: Security Attribute Changes page, select the “Unit of Trades” filter and enter June 24, 2021
(a) Recording and Reporting Industry Member Data
(1) Subject to paragraph (a)(3) below, each Industry Member shall record and electronically report to the Central Repository the following details for each order and each Reportable Event, as applicable ("Recorded Industry Member Data") in the manner prescribed by the Operating Committee pursuant to the CAT NMS Plan:
(A) for original
As announced in the April 28, 2020 notice, “Introduction to Transparency Services Initiatives and Webpage”, FINRA will be retiring the current FINRA New Issue Form and will be replacing it with an updated submission platform. The new platform will be available with the same log in credentials used to access the FINRA New Form today and is expected to go live on Monday, September 28, 2020
1. The most neglected field in investor education is equity market manipulation. New retail investors should be informed about perpetual option fail-to-delivers, married-puts, shorting via exchange-traded-funds, off-exchange trading and selling synthetic shares to manipulate a stock's price. 2. From a retail investor's perspective: An open forum where individual users can share investor
The Extended Hours Trading topic of the 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
Summary
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved1 amendments to FINRA’s customer and industry arbitration rules to expand time for non-parties to respond to arbitration subpoenas and orders of appearance of witnesses or production of documents. The amendments also make related changes to enhance the discovery process for forum users.
The amendments are effective for cases filed on
A firm is required to promptly update Form BD information by submitting amendments whenever the information on file becomes inaccurate or incomplete for any reason.
Additionally, when a FINRA member firm plans to undergo a material change in business operations it is required to file a Continuing Membership Application (CMA) with FINRA’s Membership Application Program (MAP) Group prior to
(a) Party Portal
(1) Parties must use the Party Portal to file initial statements of claim and to file and serve pleadings and any other documents on the Director or any other party except as provided in paragraph (a)(2). The Director may exercise authority to permit the use of other means of filing or service in the case of an extended Party Portal outage or in other extraordinary
