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Transforming the Securities Industry CE Program
FINRA has adopted important changes to its continuing education (CE) and registration rules to train registered persons more effectively while accommodating registered persons
Pursuant to applicable trade reporting rules, members must indicate on trade reports submitted to FINRA whether a transaction is a short sale or a short sale exempt transaction ("short sale reporting requirements"). The short sale reporting requirements apply to transactions in all NMS stocks, as defined in Rule 600(b) of SEC Regulation NMS. Thus, all short sale transactions in these
Last modified: November 17, 2023FINRA's Arbitration Awards database enables users to perform Web-based searches for FINRA and historical NASD arbitration awards free of charge, seven days a week. Also available through the site are historical awards for New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board. Users
Retail investors do not typically have much to say during these critical junctures in financial history, but given the recent tumultuous events of the last year, and the potential systematic failures that can be eliminated by 21-19, I felt the need to lend my voice to the effort. Regardless of the viability of short selling as a legitimate investment strategy, the inefficacies introduced by short
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
LAST DATE FOR COMMENT: JANUARY 2, 1986
The National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., (NASD) is requesting comments on a proposed amendment that would exempt certain persons purchasing securities in connection with the conversion of a savings and loan association or other organization from mutual to stock ownership from the restrictions
Any restrictions on the investment opportunities of retail investors are fundamentally misguided. Though an increase in due diligence might be helpful in guaranteeing brokers do not offer inappropriate investment advice to their under-informed clients (which is already disallowed), anyone who is willing to read the prospectuses and understand the products they are investing in should be
Inverse and Leveraged funds are an important part of ability to protect my portfolio. In down markets such as currently exists, in which the markets begin falling overnikght or in the free makret and acceIetate to downside the funds provide important day to day portfolio insurance without taking the much more extreme risk of short selling. In additiion, in strong bull markets the leveraged
Dear FINRA,
I am hereby writing to object to the rule enhancement articulated on Regulatory Notice 22-08, which proposes a restriction on investors' ability to trade complex products and options.
I clearly understand your concern about investors making uninformed investment decisions on options and complex products specifically to leveraged or inverse exchange-traded products. However,
Comments: I do believe having transparency is important. Regulators have done great things in the past to clarify concepts that a layman does not interact with regularly. Thanks to regulators, banks have to disclose APR's with clients, ensuring that the risks are fully understood. However, I feel that this level of scrutiny is unwarranted, biased, exclusionary, and has an unfair impact
FINRA Collection of Short Interest Data for BATS Exchange-Listed Securities
