Executive Summary
The purpose of this Election Notice is to notify firms of the upcoming elections to fill vacancies on the FINRA Regional Committees, and the mailing of ballots to eligible firms.
Firms that are members of FINRA as of the close of business on Friday, October 18, 2019, are eligible to vote for the contested seats on the Regional Committee corresponding to the district in which
Summary
Several member firms have recently notified FINRA that they have been victims of imposter websites—which are sites designed to mimic a firm’s actual website with the end goal of committing financial fraud. This Notice outlines steps firms can take to monitor for imposter websites and what to do if an imposter website is found.
Questions concerning this Notice should be directed to:
To FINRA employees,
I adamantly oppose this discriminatory regulatory restriction to my, and any other American citizens, right to invest. The top 3% of wealth is managed, controlled and available only to rich, white privileged men who usually were gifted start up funding for their investments.
I am a college educated, Hispanic, female nurse consultant, furthering my education to become a
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to permit projections of performance in institutional communications and specified communications to qualified purchasers.
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(a) No member or person associated with a member shall cause to be executed an order to buy or sell a security or a related financial instrument when such member or person associated with a member causing such order to be executed has material, non-public market information concerning an imminent block transaction in that security, a related financial instrument or a security underlying the
Haimera Workie, Vice President and Head of Financial innovation, oversees the Office of Financial Innovation. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading FINRA’s Office of Financial Innovation, which focuses on analyzing financial technology (FinTech) innovations and emerging risks and trends related to the securities market. As part of these responsibilities, Mr. Workie works to foster an
There needs to be actual punishments for abusive naked short selling, not just fines. Actual jail time please. A fine is the cost of business at least, and bribery on the part of the powers that be at worst. If not prison, then at least a fine that's worth something. Take a note out of Korea's book and take away every coin of profit from a naked short sale, if nothing else. As for short
FINRA’s examination, surveillance and risk monitoring programs play a central role in supporting FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.
Dear Sir or Madam, it has been long overdue to further regulate short sale reporting as short selling has primarily been used by the investment firms impacting the financial market of the United States the most of any parties. The lack thereof seems absurd when taking into consideration the false reporting of many facts by mainstream media such as short interest, highly opinionated company
