OverviewThis guidance is intended to provide direction on key information for a prospective and existing FINRA member firm that is contemplating to engage in activities utilizing an online platform or mobile application.1 Under Standard 6 of FINRA’s Standards for Admission (Standard), an applicant’s online platform or mobile application that the applicant intends to employ for the purpose of
INFORMATIONAL
Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
Voluntary Effective Date: December 23, 2003
Mandatory Effective Date: March 23, 2004
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Corporate Financing
Institutional
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Senior Management
Syndicate
Trading & Market Making
Training
Free-Riding and
In this third and final episode in our series covering FINRA's ongoing crypto asset regulatory work, we hear from FINRA's Blockchain Lab, which serves as a central point within FINRA for the development of blockchain-related regulatory initiatives to learn about how the Lab is supporting and advancing FINRA's regulatory work involving crypto assets.
FINRA Requests Comment on Proposed Consolidated FINRA Rules Governing Financial Responsibility and Operational Requirements
FINRA Updates Private Placement Filer Form Pursuant to FINRA Rules 5122 and 5123
In conjunction with World Investor Week 2024, the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA), FINRA and other industry regulators are issuing this Investor Bulletin to provide investors with information about the ways in which emerging technologies like AI and crypto assets, and digital platforms like social media and mobile trading apps, are increasingly influencing how people invest.
Exemption from lock-up provisions in Rule 2710(g) for shares to be issued upon the split of common stock that takes place within 180 days of the required filing of the offering with NASD when the pre-split shares were acquired prior to the 180 day timeframe.
SUGGESTED ROUTING*
Senior Management
Legal & Compliance
Registration
*These are suggested departments only. Others may be appropriate for your firm.
REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The NASD invites comments on a proposed amendment to Schedule C to the By-Laws that would
<p>Application of Rules 3030 and 3040 to associated persons who receive commissions for brokering viatical settlement contracts.</p>
Joint sales efforts by member firm and non-member real estate firm of private placements in real estate condominium complexes raise the question of whether the realtors or persons acting on behalf of the issuer would be required to register as broker/dealers.
