FINRA’s Board of Governors met on December 4-5. The agenda included discussions around FINRA’s 2025 budget, FINRA’s Outside Business Activities and Private Securities Transactions rules, and an overview of the 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report.
Good evening. Thank you, Terri [Polley], for that introduction.
It’s a pleasure to be here with you this evening to talk about our shared interests, one of which is ensuring investors have accurate and reliable financial information to better inform their decisions. I don’t need to tell you how inaccurate information—whether because of weak or inconsistent accounting standards, poor customer
GUIDANCE
Minor Rule Violation Plan
Effective Date: November 14, 2005
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Legal & Compliance
Registered Representatives
Senior Management
IM-9216
Rule 9216(b)
Minor Rule Violation Plan (MRVP)
Executive Summary
On August 18, 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) approved amendments to NASD Interpretive Material 9216-2
(IM-9216-2
This email is to warn member firms of an ongoing phishing campaign that involves fraudulent emails purporting to be from FINRA and using either the domain name “@firms-finra.org” or “@firms-sipc.org”. Neither of these domains is connected to FINRA and firms should delete all emails originating from these domain names.
INFORMATIONAL
OTCBB Trading Halts
Effective Date: June 26, 2000
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KEY TOPICS
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Trading & Market Making
Training
OTC Bulletin Board
Trading Halts
Executive Summary
On May 22, 2000, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a rule change that allows The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (The Nasdaq Stock
I OPPOSE RESTRICTIONS TO MY RIGHTS TO INVEST. Unequally applied regulations/laws, as well as attacks on Freedom of Speech/Religion/Gathering are unlawful/unconstitutional and need to be thoroughly examined and disciplined according to the law/constitution. "Regulators" are not the law or above it and need to be held accountable to do their jobs. Go after true corruption at it
As announced by the Board of the Federal Reserve System in the Federal Register on October 28, 2021, FINRA will collect detailed data on depository institutions' daily transactions of marketable U.S. Treasury securities and of the debt and MBS issued by U.S. federal government agencies including government-sponsored enterprises (agencies) via its Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE
Regulating those kind of investment is no free market. We should be able to invest in what we want, this is our money we are talking about. I use a strategy called Hedgefundie strategy, which consist of 55% UPRO/45% TMF, and I need to rebalance quarterly to keep that ratio. My entire TFSA is in that strategy and if we can't buy any of them anymore, I will have to sell at a loss right now in
Notice of FINRA District Committee Elections and Ballots
In response to numerous customer complaints and industry frustration about delays in the transfer of securities accounts from one brokerage firm to another, NASD established the Customer Account Transfer Task Force (Task Force) to consider ways to improve the process of inter-firm customer account transfers. This Report presents the results of the Task Force's deliberations.
