SUGGESTED ROUTING:*
Senior ManagementLegal & ComplianceMutual Fund*These are suggested departments only. Others may be appropriate for your firm.
MAIL VOTE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The NASD invites members to vote on a proposal to rescind the Guidelines and to amend Article III. Section 35 of the Rules of Fair Practice to include items that were contained in the Guidelines and would
FINRA's new rules for evolving work models — hybrid and remote —provide member firms greater flexibility for their registered persons to work from home. Our new Residential Supervisory Location (RSL) Rule and Remote Inspections Pilot Program Rule are intended to provide member firms greater flexibility — not less — to allow eligible registered persons to work from home, following the expiration of temporary COVID-19 relief from existing requirements.
SUGGESTED ROUTING:*
Legal & ComplianceRegistration*These are suggested departments only. Others may be appropriate for your firm.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved changes to Form BD, the Uniform Application for Broker/Dealer Registration. The amendments, developed in consultation with the NASD, North American Securities Administrators
A clearing member may use negative response letters to assign orphan accounts to an introducing broker-dealer on the clearing member’s platform.
Dear Ms. Dyer:
I am responding to your letter dated March 10, 2023, as supplemented by conversations with the staff, in which you seek interpretive guidance regarding the use of negative response letters by National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”) to
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
The Department of the Treasury is amending Form 4789, the Currency Transaction Report, which is used by broker-dealers to report cash transactions of more than $10,000, as required by SEC Rule 17a-8 and the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970.
The new form becomes effective on July 1, 1986.
BACKGROUND
The Currency and Foreign
FINRA Rule 4111(b) requires the Department of Member Supervision (Department) to calculate annually a member firm’s "Preliminary Identification Metrics" to determine whether the firm meets the "Preliminary Criteria for Identification."1 A key driver of that is whether a member firm’s Preliminary Identification Metrics meet quantitative, risk-based "Preliminary
IMPORTANT MAIL VOTE
OFFICERS, PARTNERS AND PROPRIETORS
TO: All NASD Members
LAST VOTING DATE IS APRIL 5, 1987.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
NASD members are invited to vote on proposed amendments to Article III, Sections 21(b) and 41 of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice. The NASD Board of Governors has reviewed the applicablity of recent regulation of short-sale practices by NASD members to various types of
This Report addresses several regulatory key topics for each of the four categories: (1) Firm Operations; (2) Communications and Sales; (3) Market Integrity; and (4) Financial Management. As described further in the “How to Use This Report” section below, the importance and relevance of the considerations, findings and effective practices in each of these areas will vary for each member firm.
In
Background
In March 2017, FINRA issued a Special Notice on its engagement programs as part of FINRA360. Based on comments and suggestions regarding the usefulness of some advisory committees, their membership and their effectiveness as a vehicle for dialogue between FINRA and member firms, FINRA is making several changes.
Operational Impact of Rule Changes
Rather than
Thank you for your time. Currently as it stands, there is too little information in true short positions. With a market makers ability to create synthetic shares for “liquidity”, at some point the true positions need to be accounted for. If a bank, a market maker, and or other parties can hide positions through layered securities like CDOs or swaps, there is no benefit to the market, only the
