Ornella Bergeron is a Senior Vice President in Member Supervision, responsible for leading FINRA’s Risk Monitoring Program. The Risk Monitoring team is a member firm’s primary contact point at FINRA. Through its ongoing and proactive monitoring, Risk Monitoring enables FINRA to implement a risk-based program that effectively focuses its resources and regulatory responses on risks of concern. To
Gene DeMaio is the Head of Regulatory Services Management in FINRA's Market Regulation and Transparency Services (MRTS) Department and is responsible for managing FINRA’s relationships with securities exchanges and other entities for which FINRA performs regulatory services. Prior to this role, Mr. DeMaio led the Options Regulation and Trading & Execution Examinations
The Observations on Cybersecurity section of the 2019 Report on Exam Findings informs member firms’ compliance programs by describing recent findings and observations from FINRA’s examinations, and, in certain cases, also providing a summary of effective practices.
The FINRA requirement to maintain at least half our work time in office, rather than working 100% remotely. It seems clear that we were able to function via a fully remote work environment during the COVID19 pandemic lockdown and the mandatory work in office is unnecessary. Moreover, the requirement to work in office increasingly feels antiquated and deleterious to many brokers' mental
Background
A large number of registered representatives are also Certified Financial PlannerTM (CFP®) professionals. These professionals must complete a minimum of 30 continuing education (CE) hours every two years as part of the requirements for CFP certification renewal. Through the FINRA360 process, a number of firms expressed a desire for improved opportunities
At FINRA’s annual conference on May 13, 2025, President and CEO Robert Cook discusses the FINRA Forward initiative and other topics of interest to FINRA member firms and other stakeholders, in conversation with Kayte Toczylowski, VP, Member Relations and Education.
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
ATTN: Direct Participation Programs Department
The NASD's Direct Participation Programs and Real Estate Committees have reviewed certain information received from members and their affiliates through the review process carried out by the NASD Corporate Financing Department. The Committees reviewed the costs associated with issuing and
We launched FINRA360 in March 2017 with one overarching objective: to ensure that FINRA is operating as the most effective and efficient self-regulatory organization (SRO) we can be.
The time was right for us to begin such a review. In the 10 years since the NASD and NYSE Regulation merged to form FINRA, the industry and financial markets had changed significantly. And in traveling
OverviewThis Guidance is to assist applicants prepare Form CMA (Continuing Membership Application), when seeking approval of an increase in associated persons involved in sales, as defined in IM-1011-1. (See Standard 1 for further detail.) Specified parts of Form CMA are marked with an asterisk (*) to designate the information or documentation that must be submitted with the application. One
Market Regulation Compliance Report Cards
On September 24, 1998, staff of the Market Regulation Department (Market Regulation) of NASD Regulation began making available quantitative reports for each NASD member firm concerning its compliance with trade reporting, firm quote, and best execution. The reports are being provided to firms as a compliance aid to assist them in ensuring that they are
