We are at a cross roads as an economy, thus as a country. Hedge funds and other similar large corporate entities have an unfair advantage in the market, and has acted to the detriment of the health of our economy as a whole. Loose rules related to the reporting of short interest and FTDs(fail to deliver) has created an environment that allows hedge funds and the like to take advantage of retail
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer payment system that uses its own currency, called bitcoin, to transact business around the world. Bitcoins are not issued by banks or governments—indeed, the bitcoin platform was designed to offer an alternative to national currencies, like the dollar, and commodity-based currencies such as gold or silver coins.
The Outside Business Activities and Private Securities Transactions 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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Officers * Partners * Proprietors
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
During the past year, the Association has taken an active role in attempting to assist members in their obligation to comply with the complex requirements imposed by both the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 ("TEFRA") and the Interest and Dividend Tax
I strongly oppose your these unnecessary regulations on inverse and leveraged etf's. Today's investors are very well informed of these and similar investment vehicles and we do not need your meddling in our choices!
You should be looking into ways to better regulate news driven, high speed algorithmic trading where computers key in on pre programed key phrases and can spike or
Dear FINRA,
I am writing today to express my disappointment that you are considering regulations limiting my publicly available investment options. Only through a wide and diverse array of investment options can a diverse and balanced portfolio be maintained. As an investor in the market today, just as in 2008-2009, maintaining a hedge against extreme volatility is an important and needed aspect
FINRA Regulators:
While I understand the concern of heightened risk posed by leveraged securities, I am alarmed at the proposed measures restricting investment into these publicly traded leveraged securities, especially requirements related to net worth, because these types of investments allow the type of returns necessary for lower net worth individuals to attain financial success, and
I am a retail investor with approximately $1M in investments, spread over several accounts. I routinely trade leveraged and inverse ETFs as a small portion of my overall investment as part of my overall risk management strategy. Though these ETFs are a small percentage of my total assets, they sometimes form a larger percentage of an individual account, as I concentrate all these trades in a
November 26, 2001Periodically, important messages need to be broadcast to the OATS user community. The quickest medium is the OATS Announcements Page on the OATS Web Interface. The information posted to the OATS Announcement Page is usually urgent and may affect what you can process or see on the Web Site. It is very important that you monitor the OATS Announcements on a daily basis to see the
Summary
In November 2017, FINRA launched a retrospective review of Rule 5250 (Payments for Market Making), which generally prohibits members from receiving payments for market making, to assess its effectiveness and efficiency.1 The review is part of an ongoing initiative to periodically look back at a rule or set of rules to ensure they remain relevant and are appropriately designed to
