Firms could be vulnerable to a newly discovered social engineering scheme in which bad actors trick customer support personnel into downloading and executing malware. This Alert describes the scheme and provides recommendations to help firms protect themselves from the threat.
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Internal AuditLegal & ComplianceOperationsTrading
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Department of Treasury recently finalized two amendments to the Bank Secrecy Act (the Act) regulations. One amendment adds a definition of "structuring" to the anti-structuring provision, which prohibits
I would like to see automatic reporting of shorts and short interest and not self-reporting. I have a three year old and if I'd ask her to self-report when she does something wrong life would be peachy. The brokers, market makers and multitude of firms, funds, offices and other institutions have shown that they are unreliable or downright fraudulent when it comes to reporting. They should
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Senior ManagementLegal & ComplianceMunicipalOperationsSystems*These are suggested departments only. Others may be appropriate for your firm.
On February 24, 1992, the United States District Court for the District of Kansas appointed the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) trustee for:
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Robert A. Renner is Senior Vice President, Enterprise & Financial Solutions. In this capacity, he is responsible for overall direction and oversight of FINRA’s accounting operations functions, including Revenue Management, Corporate Tax, Procurement and Payroll, as well as Corporate Real Estate, Physical Security and Information Operations, encompassing fingerprinting, entitlement and
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Senior Management
Corporate Finance
Institutional
Legal & Compliance
Municipal
Operations
Systems
Trading
Executive Summary
On April 11, 1994, The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., began operation of the Fixed Income Pricing SystemSM (FIPS®) for members trading highyield bonds. FIPS was created to facilitate the over-the-counter (OTC) trading of high
FINRA Requests Comment on Proposed Registration Category, Qualification Examination and Continuing Education Requirements for Operations Professionals
Comments on Day Trading Disclosure StatementPlease see comments with underline or strikethrough.Day-Trading Risk Disclosure StatementYou should consider the following points before engaging in a day-trading strategy. For purposes of this notice, a "day-trading strategy" means an overall trading strategy characterized by the aggressive and regular transmission by a customer of intra-day
INFORMATIONAL
Anti-Money Laundering Customer Identification Programs for Broker/Dealers
Effective Date: October 1, 2003
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KEY TOPICS
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Registration
Senior Management
Anti-Money Laundering
Compliance Programs
Executive Summary
On April 30, 2003, the Department of
I think retail is extremely desirous of seeing more frequent reporting and as much of that made publicly available as possible. At least of a weekly or bi-weekly basis. I believe the currently attempted short squeeze is bring to light that lack of transparency is being used to commit fraud and establish predatory roles against companies. The conduct of these financial professionals qualifies as
