By Bill St. Louis, Executive Vice President and Head of FINRA EnforcementFINRA Enforcement works on the front lines of investor protection. This blog post discusses some of the key objectives that drive this critical work.First, some brief background about FINRA and the role Enforcement plays as part of a multi-faceted regulatory program.FINRA helps ensure that everyone can participate
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By Robert Cook, President and CEO, FINRA. Last month, the SEC issued an exemptive order providing significant relief from the personally identifiable information (PII) reporting requirements of CAT (the Exemptive Order). This was an important step towards reducing unnecessary PII risk associated with CAT, and was directionally consistent with a blog I previously wrote calling for CAT to stop collecting and storing investors’ PII. As discussed below, however, the Exemptive Order did not eliminate all PII from CAT.
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To bring attention to a rising trend in the fraudulent transfer of customer accounts through the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service (ACATS), FINRA issued Regulatory Notice 22-21, which alerted member firms about how bad actors effect fraudulent transfers of customer assets using ACATS (referred to as ACATS fraud). That Notice listed several existing regulatory obligations that
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to amend the FINRA Rule 6800 Series, FINRA’s compliance rule (“Compliance Rule”) regarding the National Market System Plan Governing the Consolidated Audit Trail (the “CAT NMS Plan” or “Plan”) to be consistent with certain exemptions from the
FINRA is implementing a new system for OTC Issuers, ADR depositary banks and other parties to provide notice of company-related actions pursuant to SEA Rule 10b-17 and FINRA Rule 6490.
Effective Monday, November 20, 2023, FINRA will be replacing the current Electronic Issuer/ADR Company Related Action Notification forms with the Corporate Actions Management Platform. This new platform will be
In April 2021, FINRA published Regulatory Notice21-17 seeking feedback on any aspects of our rules, operations and administrative processes that may create unintended barriers to greater diversity and inclusion in the broker-dealer industry or that might have unintended disparate impacts on those within the industry.
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As of July 30, 1996, the following bonds were added to the Fixed Income Pricing System (FIPSSM).
Symbol
Name
Coupon
Maturity
MEOP.GA
Mesa Operating Company
10.625
7/1/06
MEOP.GB
Mesa Operating Company
11.625
7/1/06
LEAC.GA
Lear Corp
9.500
7/15/
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved amendments to Part i of Schedule D to the NASD By-Laws that provide new and separate fee structures for Nasdaq issuers. The new fees went into effect January 2, 1991.
I am strongly opposed to the restrictions to my right to invest. My choices on how to invest my money should not be governed by the government, nor should I have to pass any special tests before I can invest in public securities, e.g., leveraged and inverse funds. I am capable of understanding leveraged and inverse funds and their risks, via knowledge bases that are publicly available. The
