FINRA Addresses Firms’ Retail Foreign Currency Exchange Activities
The NASD would like to thank the Subcommittee for this opportunity to testify on organized crime in the securities markets, the scope of the problem and our efforts to address it.
I am pleased to be able to participate in these important public hearings on micro-cap stock fraud. As head of NASD Regulation’s Enforcement Department, my staff and I have had numerous opportunities to work with Andrew Kandel and the fine staff of the New York Attorney General’s Bureau of Investor Protection & Securities.
Chairman Dodd, Ranking Member Shelby and Members of the Committee: I am Richard Ketchum, Chairman and CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA. On behalf of FINRA, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to testify today.
FINRA Enforcement works on the front lines of investor protection.
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I would like to discuss with you today the important question of the appropriate standard of care for brokers and dealers or, more directly, whether the time has come to require broker-dealers, when recommending a security or strategy to retail investors, to ensure that the recommendation is in the “best interest” of the investor.
A “best interest” or “fiduciary”
Testimony of Chairman and CEO, Richard Ketchum, Before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Committee on Financial Services
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Good morning. It’s great to have this opportunity to be with you today.
My colleague in Member Regulation, Sales Practice, Mike Rufino, will be talking about FINRA’s regulatory and examination priorities during the next session, so I won’t steal Mike’s thunder and tell you everything that he is going to say. Rather, I want to take a step back and take this opportunity to talk about something
Remarks from the Investment Program Association Fall Conference
