For more than two centuries, the securities industry in the United States has been governed by private arrangements to regulate business conduct—membership organizations that set rules for their members, and then hold members accountable if they break the rules.The earliest such “self-regulatory organizations”—or SROs—date to the 1790s, when groups of traders in New York and Philadelphia agreed
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Treatment of Commodity Pool Trail Commissions under Rule 2810
Proposed Rule Change to Amend the Security Futures Risk Disclosure Statement
Sec. 7. (a) Except as provided hereinafter, no member of the Corporation may transfer its membership or any right arising therefrom and the membership of a corporation, partnership, or any other business organization which is a member of the Corporation shall terminate upon its liquidation, dissolution, or winding up, and the membership of a sole proprietor which is a member shall
(a) Each member that is a party to an arbitration in which more than $25,000, exclusive of interest and expenses, is in dispute must pay non-refundable process fee, due at the time the parties are sent arbitrator lists in accordance with Rule 13403(b), as set forth in the schedule below.
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Exemptive relief is granted based on: the representation that at the time of the contribution the individual had no connection to the firm’s municipal securities business, and it was not contemplated that, at the time of the contribution, he would be promoted and, thus, become a municipal finance professional (as defined); the firm has significant and long standing business relationships with the government entity of which the contribution recipient was an issuer official; the firm has established additional compliance processes about political contributions; the individual will not be involved in any way in municipal securities business with the state or any other governmental issuer business for which the contribution recipient is an issuer official.
(a) Members shall, as required by the rules and regulations of jurisdictions imposing taxes on sales, purchases or other transfers of securities, furnish tax stamps or pay the tax through securities clearing organizations.
(b) In the event that taxes are due pursuant to state stock transfer taxes, the seller shall furnish to the buyer at the time of delivery a sale memorandum ticket to which
FINRA (f/k/a National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD")) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") a proposed rule change to amend its trade reporting rules to change the manner in which members are required to report odd-lot transactions to a FINRA Trade Reporting Facility ("TRF"), the Alternative Display
