Dear Sir/Madam: I am an active investor with more than 33 years of successful investing experience in global capital markets.
I am also a licensed Financial Advisor with one of the largest wealth management firms in North America. Based on my many years of experience in the investments business I can confidently say that leveraged and inverse mutual funds and ETFs are extremely important and
FINRA Rule 2360 (Options) and FINRA Rule 2359 (Position and Exercise Limits; Liquidations) incorporate certain option exchanges' requirements for options and warrant position and exchange limits. Changes to an options exchange rules could affect a FINRA-regulated firm’s compliance with the FINRA rules. Accordingly, FINRA will provide updates when an options
I'd like to share my comments concerning your contemplation of requiring certain restrictions, limitations and/or abolition of certain inverse, levered investment products. I have been using both of these types of products for years and feel they are important tools that individuals, like myself, can utilize to manage our financial assets in the stock markets. Both these tools, when
(a) Prior to executing a transaction for or with a customer on a "net" basis as defined in paragraph (e) below, a member must provide disclosure to and obtain consent from the customer as provided in this Rule.
(b) With respect to non-institutional customers, the member must obtain the customer's written consent on an order-by-order basis prior to executing a transaction for
The following terms shall have the following meanings for purposes of the Rule 6640 Series.
(a) "OTC Reporting Facility" means the service that, among other things, accommodates reporting of transactions in direct participation programs (DPPs). The OTC Reporting Facility comparison function will not be available for those DPPs that are not eligible for clearance and settlement through
2025 Program Dates: November 16 – 21This course takes place at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in Washington, DC. Over five days, Georgetown University business and law school professors and financial services industry experts explore a series of advanced-level regulatory and compliance topics that help participants build on previous coursework covered during Week I.
(a) No member shall sell investment company shares in dollar amounts just below the point at which the sales charge is reduced on quantity transactions so as to share in the higher sales charges applicable on sales below the breakpoint.
(b) For purposes of determining whether a sale in dollar amounts just below a breakpoint was made in order to share in a higher sales charge, FINRA
The 2019 National Compliance Outreach Program for Broker-Dealers is a one-day program intended for compliance, audit, and other senior personnel of broker-dealer firms and branch offices.
(a) Each member or its agent that is a participant in a registered clearing agency, for purposes of clearing over-the-counter securities transactions, shall participate in fail reconfirmation and pricing services when offered.
(b)(1) A contract submitted to a reconfirmation and repricing service ("service") which has been DK'd ("Don't Know") by the contra-party or
Steven Price is Senior Vice President, Market Investigations and oversees FINRA’s Market Investigations program, which is responsible for conducting investigations into trading activities, reporting and related processes and controls involving equities, options, and fixed income products and security-based swaps. Mr. Price previously led FINRA’s National Cause Program, which conducts reviews and
