As a retail investor with over 15 years experience, I would like to urge FINRA to enact, with all haste, any and all new rules or amendments that make the American market more transparent and fair for all investors. For far too long the majority of investors have been in the dark in regards to short interest, robbing us of the ability to make informed decisions while researching and deciding on
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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
Executive Summary
The purpose of this Election Notice is to notify FINRA small firm members of the Small Firm Advisory Committee (SFAC) election and the distribution of ballots. Two seats on the SFAC are up for election, one representing the Midwest region and one representing the South region. FINRA small firm members1 in those regions as of the close of business on Friday, October 20, 2023,
I would like Finra to adopt the following measures. 1. Report every time a share is lent and create a tracking system so the same share cannot be lent more than once. 2. Force the RegSho requirements of FTD to attach to the stock/obligation so the T+35 is not reset through measures such as swaps or other derivatives trading. 3. Eliminate Naked Shorting in all circumstances. 4. Adopt fines in
Good afternoon, Chairman Reed, Ranking Member Allard and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee. NASD is grateful for the invitation to testify regarding the regulatory consolidation of NASD and NYSE Member Regulation.
OATS Update
IMPORTANT! Non-Market Makers in Nasdaq securities are NOT required to submit an Order Audit Trail SystemSM (OATSSM) Subscriber Initiation and Registration Form to the NASD until after January 1999. Only Market Makers in Nasdaq securities and ECNs were required to submit the Form by September 14, 1998.
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The Crowdfunding Offerings: Broker-Dealers and Funding Portals topic of the 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
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FINRA member firms should be aware of an ongoing phishing campaign involving threat actors targeting executive employees at broker-dealers and investment advisors with fraudulent emails purporting to be from FINRA executives. The campaign began on or around May 21, 2025. These emails are not from FINRA, and firms should delete them and consider blocking the indicators of compromise contained at the end of this alert.
