Summary
To bring attention to a rising trend in the fraudulent transfer of customer accounts through the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service (ACATS), FINRA issued Regulatory Notice 22-21, which alerted member firms about how bad actors effect fraudulent transfers of customer assets using ACATS (referred to as ACATS fraud). That Notice listed several existing regulatory obligations that
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Recently, FINRA took enforcement action against several firms for failing to establish or maintain a reasonably designed supervisory system for recommendations of alternative mutual funds, also sometimes referred to as “alt funds” or “liquid alts” (“Alt Funds”). FINRA is continuing to note such deficiencies in its examinations and communications reviews of such products.
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Elisabeth Craig is Senior Vice President & Deputy, FINRA, Credentialing, Registration, Education and Disclosure (CRED), responsible for oversight of registration functions and testing and continuing education.
Prior to joining FINRA, Elisabeth was employed as Counsel with DCS Advisory, an investment banking firm, where she focused on all aspects of legal and compliance matters. Elisabeth
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As a programmer, a major source of frustration for me regarding many facets of our market relates to the fundamental lack of speed and automation endemic to our financial reporting pipelines. In a system which promotes and rewards algorithmic and high-frequency-trading, any position which would be reported and analyzed as a document and by a human would (and very likely is!) obsolete, potentially
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Thank you, Drew [Bowden] for that introduction, and thanks also to IRI for the invitation to speak here today. It’s my pleasure to update you on what we are doing and thinking about at FINRA.
I don’t need to tell anyone in this room how rapidly the legislative and regulatory environment is changing and evolving. We are all seeing it and living it every day. But, many of
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Thank you FINRA for opening the opportunity to comment on Regulatory Notice 21-19 to all investors. Theoughout Throughout last two years, I, along with many others, have enjoyed expanding my knowledge base of the stock market. The more I've learned about the stock matket, the less faith I have in the system. I can open an app on my smart phone anywhere in the world, send money through my
I am commenting in regards to particular aspects of FINRA 21-19, which I do support and believe should have been enacted long ago. Undoubtedly, the public’s faith in the United States market has been diminishing following the many preventable financial crises that have occurred in the past. The ongoing state of the market from retail investors points of view, frankly appears broken and has failed
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