Abby Slonecker joined FINRA in early 2021 as Chief of Staff to Greg Ruppert and Senior Vice President of Member Supervision’s Office of Strategy and Program Risk (OSPR). In her role as Chief of Staff, she executes Greg’s strategic vision toward fulfilling FINRA’s mission and advises his Senior Leadership team. As SVP of OSPR, she oversees five teams that advise and support Member Supervision’s
Feral Talib is an Executive Vice President and the Head of Surveillance and Market Intelligence in FINRA’s Market Regulation and Transparency Services (MRTS) department, with responsibility for leading FINRA’s market surveillance programs.Mr. Talib was previously the Global Head of Market Surveillance at BNP Paribas Group. In that role, he had strategic leadership of all market surveillance
To conduct securities transactions and business with the investing public in the United States both firms and individuals must be registered with FINRA. Firms must apply and meet certain membership standards to become a FINRA-registered broker-dealer. The New Member Application Form (Form NMA) is used by FINRA’s Membership Application Program (MAP) Group to assess whether an Applicant meets those
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Sign In With GoogleThe social login feature allows public/individual authenticated users who require an account to access FINRA’s systems to register and log in using their existing Google account credentials. Social login makes the onboarding process easy and simplifies the authentication process by using user’s existing Google account information and credentials. This eliminates the need for
FINRA encourages comments on this paper, including areas where FINRA may:offer guidance or modifications to its rules to address the adoption of quantum computing;foster greater crypto agility within firms to prepare for post-quantum cryptography; andseek to prepare for a quantum future while maintaining investor protection and market integrity.FINRA also seeks input from financial industry
FINRA customers using a VPN to access the MPP products’ (ADF, ORF, TRACE, TRF) FINRA test network (NTF) will be required to make a configuration change by close of business, May 3, 2024.
There are a lot of ways to gain exposure to precious metals such as silver, gold, palladium and platinum. But investing in the physical metal can carry a lot of allure for some investors. It can also come with a lot of risks.
