Jon Kroeper, Executive Vice President, Quality of Markets, is leaving FINRA, effective at year end, to pursue other opportunities.
I'm a retail trader. I'm glad strongly in favor of enhanced short and FTD reporting requirements. Knowing the true short interest and quantity of FTDs on a security are important metrics for me when I'm evaluating an investment. There are currently too many ways for large players in the system to obfuscate this information. Please do everything in your power to ensure that true
Please do not reduce the investing freedom of individual investors. We should be free to make our own investing decisions, whether they are wise or not - that is our decision to make. This would further stack the deck against individuals, when institutional investing firms already have myriad tools and freedoms that are not given to average people. Furthermore, these firms have shown no better
Regulations preventing individuals not considered high net worth is classist, and potentially racist considering the socio economic demographics of high net worth folks. This has the potential of being illegal for its discriminatory language similar to historic red lining policies. I would also think, having more people invest would be of interest in a capitalist system, as it also has the
The Neutral Corner—Volume 1, 2021
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Understanding the Assertion of Legal Privileges in Arbitration Proceedings
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FINRA Dispute Resolution Services and FINRA News
COVID-19 Vaccine information for Hearing Purposes
COVID-19 Hearing Postponements and Virtual Hearings
I have been investing for 20+ years and I am retired and manage my own portfolio. I rarely use reverse or leveraged stocks but sometimes that is the only way I have to protect my portfolio. I understand the risks but I ALSO know the risks of not protecting not protecting it. I do not short stocks because that has unlimited risks also. Please leave the system alone so we retail investors can
This is my money and I should able to choose my own investments. Inverse and leveraged funds are a strategy to combat the hedge funds and institutional money - both are market manipulators. Try regulating them. And, try regulating Congress - they abuse the system and make investments off inside information but no regulations there. So, let's just regulate the common people, of course.
There is no higher priority for FINRA than protecting senior investors from financial exploitation. Thus, every year we bring dozens of enforcement actions against brokers who harm senior investors, either through fraud schemes, conversion, churning of accounts, or otherwise. In this post, I want to highlight one pattern we have seen with increasing frequency in which certain brokers have
