FINRA Issues an Interpretation to Clarify the Classification and Trade Reporting of Certain “Hybrid” Securities to FINRA
FINRA and ISG Announce Extension of Effective Date for Certain Electronic Blue Sheet Data Elements and Updates to Certain Requestor and Exchange Codes
In regards to regulatory notice 21-19 regarding short positions... In my opinion, the current US financial system is highly fraudulent, with the regulatory agencies being complicit. They are complicit by complacency, with years of unchecked fraud and market manipulation through naked short selling by large hedge funds like Citadel and Susquehanna being allowed to happen with impunity. The SEC and
NASD has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") a proposed rule change to NASD's Plan of Allocation and Delegation of Functions by NASD to Subsidiaries ("Delegation Plan") and certain NASD rules to reflect NASD's direct authority for the activities related to or in support of trading in over-the-counter ("OTC")
(a) Authority to Initiate Halts In Trading Otherwise Than on an Exchange in NMS Stocks and Facility ClosuresFINRA, pursuant to the procedures set forth in paragraph (b):(1) shall halt trading otherwise than on an exchange in any NMS stock, as defined in Rule 600(b) of SEC Regulation NMS, whenever a Primary Listing Market declares a Regulatory Halt in the security.(2) shall halt trading otherwise
Addressed to Yvonne Huber & Racquel Russel. Thank you both for requesting comment on Short Interest Position Reporting. I find it hopeful and positive that FINRA has acknowledged a gap in their ability to oversee Short Interest and Fail-To-Deliver Positions. In order to protect American investors (many of whom rely on equity positions ins 401Ks and IRAs to have a hope of retirement) FINRA
Every day, FINRA's Insider Trading Detection Program uses sophisticated technology and analytics to monitor 100% of trading in stocks, options and bonds for potentially suspicious activity around material news events, resulting in hundreds of referrals to the SEC and law enforcement every year. On this episode, we hear how the team connects trading data, information from public sources and from companies and FINRA firms to pull together actionable intelligence.
As a concerned investor and with regard for the overriding desire for free, fair and open markets, I return the following comments. 1. Consolidation of short interest data publication, centralized on the FINRA website should be made public. 2. Require firms to segregate short interest held in proprietary accounts vs that held in customer accounts. 3. Report to FINRA account-level short interest (
SEC Rule 606(a) requires broker-dealers that route equity and option orders on behalf of customers to prepare quarterly reports that disclose specific information about their order routing practices for non-directed orders in NMS stocks and NMS securities that are options contracts. The reports are published as PDFs and XML files for each calendar quarter. Data is collected from firms at the end
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The 1994-95 NASD broker/dealer and agent registration renewal cycle begins its second phase this month. The NASD is publishing information in this Notice to help members review, reconcile, and respond to the final adjusted invoice packages that were mailed to all member firms
