Summary
FINRA requests comment on a proposal to facilitate centralized access to members’ order execution quality reports for NMS stocks that are required to be published by market centers under Rule 605 of Regulation NMS. Under the proposal, FINRA members would be required to provide their Rule 605 reports to FINRA, which FINRA would publish in a centralized location on the FINRA website.
Summary
The annual meeting of FINRA firms will take place on or about Wednesday, September 6, 2023, to elect one Large Firm Governor and one Small Firm Governor to the FINRA Board of Governors (FINRA Board). A formal notice of the meeting, including the precise date, time and location, will be mailed to executive representatives on or about Monday, August 7, 2023.
The purpose of this
FINRA is a not-for-profit, self-regulatory organization (SRO) dedicated to promoting investor protection and market integrity in a manner that facilitates vibrant capital markets. One of FINRA’s tools for achieving this objective is fair and effective enforcement of member firms’ compliance with securities laws and regulations.
FINRA’s highest priority when it identifies misconduct is to seek
Summary
Effective February 27, 2023, the Section 31 fee rate applicable to specified securities transactions on the exchanges and in the over-the-counter markets will decrease from its current rate of $22.90 per million dollars in transactions to a new rate of $8.00 per million dollars in transactions.
Finance-related questions should be directed to Amanda Rath, Manager, Finance, at (240) 386-
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Shubham Agrawal, a Senior Security Engineer with FINRA, discovered that the Amazon EC2 Autoscaling service lacked PassRole validation check for one of its commands, CreateLaunchConfiguration. This can lead to “privilege escalation” in the AWS cloud, which is gaining elevated access or jumping from a lower privileged role to higher privileged one. This blog discusses the
FINRA has taken disciplinary actions against the following firms and individuals for violations of FINRA rules; federal securities laws, rules and regulations; and the rules of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB).
As previously announced, the IntelligentCross ATS (MPID: INCR) intends to become an active quoting participant on FINRA’s Alternative Display Facility (ADF), pending Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval.
FINRA and INCR will participate in the second CTA/UTP production User Acceptance Test on Saturday, February 25, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 am. ET.
The following symbols will be
On January 31, 2022, FINRA introduced the Participant Data Management System (“PDM”) which firms now use to manage access to the FINRA trade reporting facilities, including TRACE, ORF and ADF. PDM also allows firms to add, view, and modify users of the TRAQS web interface. Firms are strongly encouraged to use PDM to review their TRAQS users on a regular basis to ensure that accounts remain valid
