New Series 51 Examination
New Rate for Fees Paid Under Section 31 of the Exchange Act
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.
Effective Date: October 26, 2016The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. ("FINRA") provides FINRA widgets (the "Widget(s)"), and the data and information available therein through any underlying databases (the "Content"), as available on or through the FINRA Website (the "FINRA Website"). This FINRA Widget terms of use ("Terms of Use")
Executive Summary
FINRA has adopted new rules to address brokers with a significant history of misconduct and the broker-dealers that employ them.1 The new rules:
allow a Hearing Officer to impose conditions or restrictions on the activities of a Respondent member firm or Respondent associated person, and require the member firm employing a Respondent associated person to
(a) Reportable TransactionsMembers shall comply with the Rule 7200A Series when reporting transactions to the System, including executions of less than one round lot if those executions are to be compared and locked-in. All trades that are reportable transactions will be processed pursuant to an effective transaction reporting plan. Trades that are not already locked-in trades will be
The FINRA New Issue Form will be unavailable from 6:30 p.m. ET, Friday, September 25, 2020, until midnight ET Monday, September 28, 2020, while updates are made for the platform infrastructure conversion.
As FINRA has announced, the current FINRA New Issue Form is being retired and replaced with an updated submission platform. Beginning Monday, September 28, 2020, users will access the updated
In my opinion... All investors from hedge funds, to retail investors to those considering investing in a stock should be able to see the exact same data that hedge funds, and clearing houses and brokers see. It should all be in real time and it should be free. This needs to include Dark Pool data. Short interest should be reported in real time, and the number of shorted shares should never exceed
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Officers * Partners * Proprietors
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
Earlier this year, the provisions under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 ("TEFRA") with respect to withholding on dividends and interest was repealed by Congress.
Shortly after the repeal of withholding, the Interest and Dividend Tax Compliance Act of 1983 ("
FINRA publishes this quarterly review to provide firms with a summary sampling of recent disciplinary actions involving misconduct by registered representatives. The sample includes settled matters and decisions in litigated cases (National Adjudicatory Council decisions and decisions of the SEC in FINRA cases). These summaries call attention to, and remind registered representatives and firms of, specific conduct that violates FINRA rules and may result in disciplinary action.
