Ornella Bergeron is a Senior Vice President in Member Supervision, responsible for leading FINRA’s Risk Monitoring Program. The Risk Monitoring team is a member firm’s primary contact point at FINRA. Through its ongoing and proactive monitoring, Risk Monitoring enables FINRA to implement a risk-based program that effectively focuses its resources and regulatory responses on risks of concern. To
Rules 203(b) (Short sales) and 204 (Close-out requirement) of Regulation SHO provide exceptions for bona fide market making activity. The SEC has provided guidance on what constitutes “bona fide market making activities” as well as examples of what does not. Member firms must also confirm and be able to demonstrate that any transaction for which they rely on a Regulation SHO bona fide market making exception qualifies for the exception, consistent with Regulation SHO and guidance.
GUIDANCE
Trading Activity Fee
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Finance
Legal & Compliance
Registered Representatives
Senior Management
Trading
NASDAQ Exchange Market Makers
Riskless Principal
Trading Activity Fee
Executive Summary
NASD is issuing this Notice to supplement guidance provided in
NASD Notice to Members (NTM) 06-44 relating to the application
of the Trading
GUIDANCE
Order Audit Trail System (OATS)
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Internal Audit
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Registered Representatives
Senior Management
Systems
Trading
NASD Rules 6950 through 6958
Order Audit Trail System (OATS)
Executive Summary
On October 10, 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC
An unprecedented number of companies are pursuing an alternative path to entering the public market by using a special purpose acquisition company or SPAC. In 2020, SPACs raised over $80 billion, and in the first nine weeks of 2021 SPACS raised over $70 billion. Here are some basics on SPAC investing.
FINRA Reminds Firms of their Obligation to Report Accurately the Time of Execution for Transactions in TRACE-eligible Securities
Rule Filing Status As Of July 7, 1999
NASD Rule Filing Status
The following is a list of rule filings by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD® or Association) that are either pending at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or recently have been approved by the SEC and have not been announced in a Notice to Members. The information is current as of July 7,
There needs to be a far stronger watch on naked short selling that is clearly a major issue in the current market. Investors should have full transparency to what's going on within the markets they invest their money in. The entire world has their eyes on the US Financial system at the moment. The result of the lack of oversight and control has put extreme distrust in the American financial
FINRA 21-19 is something this country has needed for a long time -- financial institutions, hedge funds and the like need to be better regulated. I didn't know a lot about the market before this year, but what I have learned is that there are too many loopholes, and a lack of enforcement of existing regulations, that allows big players to make money at everyone else's expense. Synthetic
My comments submissions are: 1. The purpose of this change is to improve transparency within the market to counter fraudulently or bad actors having the ability to circumvent reporting mechanisms for their own gain, and often the loss that retail investors suffer as a result when operating within the market. This premise should underpin how all comments are reviewed and revisions incorporated. 2
