Rulemaking Items for Discussion at the February 2014 Meeting
FINRA is conducting an assessment of firms’ approaches to managing cyber-security threats. FINRA is conducting this assessment in light of the critical role information technology (IT) plays in the securities industry, the increasing threat to firms’ IT systems from a variety of sources, and the potential harm to investors, firms, and the financial system as a whole that these threats pose.
As announced in Regulatory Notice 21-02, FINRA is modifying the convention for rounding the original loan-to-value ratio used in the dissemination of transactions in agency pass-through mortgage-backed securities and Small Business Administration (SBA)-backed asset-backed securities traded in specified pool transactions. This change will become effective on Monday, July 26, 2021. On this
Decimalization Testing
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Legal & Compliance
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Registered Representatives
Senior Management
Technology
Trading and Market Making
Decimalization
Executive Summary
The Fractional Shares: Reporting and Order Handling section of the 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
GUIDANCE
Extension of Time Requests
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Extension of Time Requests
NASD Rule 3160
Regulation T
SEC Rule 15c3-3
Executive Summary
On September 15, 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved new NASD Rule 3160 that requires: (1) all
While putting out notices is a (small) step in the right direction, the punishment needs to fit the crime. The current penalties for the majority of already fraudulent, illegal or criminal market activities are fines which represent a minute fraction of the profit gained by perpetuating them. As such, any enforcement (on the rare occasions enforcement actions are even taken) simply represents the
Short interest reporting should be instantaneous. Not sure why the reporting on SI and other short positions data is so delayed and unreliable but for the market to be fair, both sides of positions need to see all data equally for manipulation to be in check. If changes to short data being made available publicly and in reasonable times then I fear the market will never be fair and retail
Finra should absolutely adopt all of the above changes. Any regulation that can be added for transparency in a free market should be added. All of this information should be reported daily and available to everyone to install confidence in a free market system. Above and beyond this, accountability for failure to comply should come with harsher penalties then small fines that can be incurred as a
Thank you for the opportunity to make comments. I will begin by saying that short selling should be banned in the United States. It is antithetical to the law of supply and demand, is being abused by hedge funds and market makers and obscures transparency. Seeing as how FINRA and the SEC will not ban short selling here are some of my other suggestions 1. Each Individual Stock Share should have a
