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Each year, FINRA publishes its Annual Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter to highlight issues of importance to FINRA's regulatory programs.
Cover Letter From FINRA President and CEO, Robert Cook
January 8, 2018
As is our practice, we are marking the start of the new year by publishing our
Summary
FINRA is publishing this Notice to assist firms with making accurate submissions in connection with requests for Federal Reserve Board Regulation T, SEA Rule 15c3-3 and FINRA Rule 4210 extensions of time around holidays when exchanges or banks are closed. The schedule included in this Notice specifies the due dates for filing requests of extensions of time prior to and after a holiday
Summary
FINRA is issuing this Notice to remind member firms of their obligations during extreme market conditions with respect to handling customer orders, maintaining appropriate margin requirements and effectively managing their liquidity.
Questions concerning the best execution guidance discussed in this Notice should be directed to:
Patrick Geraghty, Vice President,
May 6 Revised submission: First let me say that I am a Roosevelt supporter (Teddy and FDR), not anti-government. I have traded ProFunds, which offer shorts and leverage, for about ten years. ProFunds is my favorite fund family. I do not care about leverage, but I do care about being able to short (inverse funds). I do not have an advisor or broker, and I never have or will. Common knowledge is
Dear FINRA regulators,
Though I don't work in the Finance industry, I work in Corporate Accounting, leveraged and inverse ETFs are part of my personal investment strategy. I do my own research, read as much of prospectuses as possible, and understand the risks I take before making trades. As a free American, I should be able to keep using leveraged and inverse ETFs like I always have
Summary
FINRA is issuing this Notice to provide guidance to member firms regarding suspicious activity monitoring and reporting obligations under FINRA Rule 3310 (Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Program).
Questions concerning this Notice should be directed to:
Victoria Crane, Associate General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, at (202) 728-8104; or
Blake Snyder, Senior Director, Member
To whom it may concern.
I am writing to express my shock and concern over the direction FIRNA believes it is necessary to move in as outline by Regulatory Notice 22-08. The entire notice is written with a thinly veiled tone of condescension towards retail investors and how they cannot possibly have the knowledge or sophistication to understand what they are investing in; a common refrain from
I write to you in strong opposition to the proposed rule changes to which this public comment refers. I understand and applaud FINRA's desire to protect consumers - however I must insist you find a different way to do it. Simply restricting my access as an individual investor to a broad range of investments doesn't serve to protect me - it serves to drive my investing into
Comment on SEC Proposed Rule #S7-24-15: I am a retail investor who has used leveraged ETF's for the past 12 years. I do not trade in these instruments but have purchased them over time, and have continued to hold them (all for at least five years). I monitor them daily and evaluate my portfolio vs the major indices on a weekly basis. I have included them initially at about 20% of my overall
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.
