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 District 2 seats on the West Region Committee are the only contested seats. Therefore, only firms that are members of FINRA in District 2 as of the close of business on Monday,
As I see it, the current US market is full of nothing but fraud and blatant manipulation, with regulatory agencies doing nothing to police it to the point of them being complicit in these actions as well. They are complicit through their complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation in several ways. Naked short selling by large hedge funds like Citadel, point72 and Melvin
TO: All NASD Members
There appears to be a growing practice among member firms to offer their retail customers a service whereby debit balances created by the purchase of securities in the customer's cash account with the member will be automatically satisfied by the redemption of shares of a money market fund. This practice is distinguishable from what have been called "account
The Portfolio Margin and Intraday Trading topic of the 2024 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 and related considerations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
The hackathon is designed to provide technology staff with foundational security knowledge as well as the opportunity to practice mitigating security risks like broken access control, cross-site scripting, security misconfigurations, injection attacks and more. The planning team works with a vendor to create three cyber ranges to practice security hacking at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.
A. Delegation of Functions and Authority:
1. Subject to Section I.B.9., FINRA hereby delegates to FINRA Regulation and FINRA Regulation assumes the following responsibilities and functions as a registered securities association:
a. To establish and interpret rules and regulations and provide exemptions for FINRA members including, but not limited to, fees, membership requirements and dispute
SummaryFINRA seeks comment on a proposed new rule to streamline and reduce unnecessary burdens regarding existing requirements addressing the outside activities of member firms’ associated persons, including registered persons (the Proposal). The Proposal is the result of FINRA's retrospective review of FINRA's rules governing outside business activities (OBAs) and private securities
Executive Summary
The purpose of this Election Notice is to notify FINRA small firm members of the distribution of ballots to elect one North Region and one West Region representative to the Small Firm Advisory Committee (SFAC). FINRA small firm members1 in the North and West Regions as of the close of business on October 18, 2021, are eligible to vote in these elections.
Ballots are
SummaryThe purpose of this Election Notice is to notify members of an upcoming election to fill one small firm seat on the National Adjudicatory Council (NAC). Eligible individuals who obtain the requisite number of valid petitions may be included as candidates on the ballot by following the petition procedures described in this Election Notice.A formal notice of the NAC election and ballot
