Comments: I am an investor, an advisor, a father, a son, husband and business owner. I have used these leveraged products in small amounts and I feel there is a lot of warnings, disclaimers, etc on these already. If anything maybe make the warning bigger or more bold but don't limit the access of these. That would in my mind do the following 1-increase risk because it would limit volume and
Please please please change short position regulations to account for arranged financing of synthetic shorts. The US's economic system has become beyond strained and failure to account for synthetic shares both creates an enormous assymetry to the detriment of retail investing and also contributes to contribute malfeasance by unscrupulous hedge funds, market makers, and their enablers. FINRA
New Series 51 Examination
On September 30, 2002, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) filed a proposed rule change with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the MSRB's new Municipal Fund Securities Limited Principal Qualification Examination (Series 51), as well as an amendment to Rule G-3, on professional qualifications. Administration of the new Series 51 examination
Member firms should be aware of an alleged large-scale data breach possibly affecting Oracle Cloud services at firms and third-party providers. FINRA recommends that firms review this information to assess any potential impact to their operations, as well as with third-party providers who provide services to the firm. FINRA previously delivered an email to firms whose domain names appeared in the threat actor post, as well as any firms that previously informed FINRA of their use of Oracle products and services.
FINRA Provides Guidance on Firm Responsibilities for Sales of Pension Income Stream Products
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved proposals by each of the five registered national options exchanges and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the SROs) that provide member firms with more flexibility in how they store account statements and other information for
Technology Based Innovations for Regulatory Compliance in the Securities Industry outlines recent regulatory technology (RegTech) developments within the securities industry and potential opportunities and implications these technologies may have for broker-dealers.
The report follows an in-depth review conducted by FINRA on the emergence of RegTech tools within the securities industry and
(a) Transaction Related Charges
The following charges shall be paid by the participant for trade reporting to the OTC Reporting Facility. In the case of trades where the same market participant is on both sides of a trade report, applicable fees assessed on a "per side" basis will be assessed once, rather than twice, and the market participant will be assessed applicable charges
FINRA experienced an issue on December 23, 2024 with the processing of Weekly OTC Transparency Data, thereby causing a publication delay for the week of November 18, 2024 (NMS Tier 2 and OTCE). FINRA is working on resolving the issue and will provide an update once the issue is resolved.If you have any questions, please contact FINRA Business Services.
Continuing Education Planning
