Beginning Monday, August 14, 2023, FINRA will increase the bandwidth rate for the Trade Data Dissemination Service 2.1 (TDDS 2.1) vendor feed from 2,500 kilobits per second (Kbps) to 3,000 kilobits per second (Kbps).
TDDS 2.1 subscribers should ensure their systems can accept the higher data rates. The TDDS 2.1 data rate change does not impact any of the ORF reporting applications (FIX and TRAQS
FINRA’s Member Regulation department is conducting a review with respect to products linked to the CBOE’s Volatility Index (VIX). The review will focus on the supervisory processes followed by firms to identify and mitigate sales practice risks associated with recommendations to non-institutional purchasers of VIX-linked products.
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The Nasdaq Stock MarketSM and the securities exchanges will be closed on Good Friday, April 9, 1993. "Regular way" transactions made on the preceding business days will be subject to the settlement date schedule listed below.
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FINRA Announces SEC Approval and Effective Date for New Consolidated FINRA Rules; Effective Date: December 15, 2008
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Since December 1, 1990, Nasdaq market makers that are also market makers in the Small Order Execution System (SOES) have been required to display sizes in their quotations equal to or greater than the SOES tier
FINRA is a not-for-profit, self-regulatory organization (SRO) dedicated to promoting investor protection and market integrity in a manner that facilitates vibrant capital markets. One of FINRA’s tools for achieving this objective is fair and effective enforcement of our member firms’ compliance with securities laws and regulations.
FINRA’s highest priority when it identifies misconduct is to
When will this outrageous naked short selling of the Hedge Funds stop? We have such a corrupt system; who will be brave enough to put an end to this madness? The Hedge Funds are no different than the men and women behind “bars,” the only difference is the Hedge Funds are allowed to get away with their crime. The Hedge Funds have robbed millions of shareholders who own AME and GME stocks by
The cat's out of the bag; retail investors now see and know that hedge funds and big business, in general, are taking advantage of the general public. Excessive and indefinite short-selling to drive stock prices down (and some companies out of business), as well as trading away from major exchanges that retail investors cannot interact with is destroying our faith in the system. The
While short positions is legal and should remain so, predatory shorting that harms American companies, it's consumers, and American investors should be abolished. Greater monitoring of the practice and regulatory enforcement to prevent it from occurring is desperately needed. "Dark Pool" trading in particular is should be illegal and have those that participate in it the subject of
To whom it may concern, Short interest positions should be reported daily. Dark Pool trading should be banned. I can understand the argument for their initial creation, however I do not trust financial giants from misusing the dark pools for price suppression. Payment for order flow should be completely banned. Retail investors should be on an equal playing field as hedge funds and market makers
