TO: All NASD Members and Level 2 and Level 3 Subscribers
On Tuesday, February 17, 1987, 17 issues are scheduled to join the NASDAQ National Market System, bringing the total number of issues in NASDAQ/NMS to 2,775. These 17 issues, which will begin trading under real-time trade reporting, are entering NASDAQ/NMS pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Commission's criteria for
INFORMATIONALDistrict ElectionsSUGGESTED ROUTINGKEY TOPICSLegal & ComplianceOperationsRegistrationSenior ManagementDistrict ElectionsExecutive SummaryThrough this Notice, NASD announces the election results for the District Committees and the District Nominating Committees. The candidates nominated to the District Committees have been duly elected in Districts 2 through 9, and in District
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TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
In Notice to Members 84-69, dated December 18, 1984, the NASD apprised the membership that the Comptroller of the Currency had issued notices concerning certain direct obligations that either may be worthless or have not been honored by a number of offshore bank licenses
By Robert Cook, President and CEO, and Greg Ruppert, Executive Vice President, Member Supervision, FINRA. From 2021 to 2024, the SEC brought enforcement actions against numerous FINRA member firms for recordkeeping violations involving off-channel communications (OCCs) and settled them on substantially similar terms. In January 2025, the SEC brought additional OCC-related actions against other member firms but settled these on significantly less burdensome terms. A group of firms settling before 2025 petitioned the SEC to modify their settlements to align with the January firm settlements. The SEC recently denied this petition.
Notice of FINRA District Committee Election and Ballots
(a) Definition of Principal and Principal Registration Categories(1) Definition of PrincipalA "principal" is any person associated with a member, including, but not limited to, sole proprietor, officer, partner, manager of office of supervisory jurisdiction, director or other person occupying a similar status or performing similar functions, who is actively engaged in the management of
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Fee-based programs typically charge a customer a fixed fee or percentage of assets
FINRA 21-19 is needed to restore the Retail Investor's trust in the market. An equivalence of information is needed to ensure all parties in the market are on equal footing. Transparency of data, in particular, the limited short interest reporting policy, needs to be improved. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and
Finra 21-19 is a change that is long overdue to the short reporting systems that have plagued the United States capital markets for too long. The institutions that have the ability to misrepresent their short exposure and subsequent effect on the markets is not only damaging to the retail Investor but the markets as a whole. The changes implemented in Finra 21-19 are not only a step in the right
