FINRA announced today that it has fined Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC $1.6 million for the firm’s repeated failures to timely close out failed inter-dealer municipal securities transactions and to take prompt steps to obtain physical possession or control of municipal security positions that are short more than 30 calendar days, and related supervisory failures.
(a) Under the terms of the business arrangement establishing the FINRA/Nasdaq Trade Reporting Facility Carteret and the FINRA/Nasdaq Trade Reporting Facility Chicago, Nasdaq, Inc., as the Business Member, has a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free right and license to use covered market data, consistent with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. Nasdaq, Inc., as
FINRA Requests Comment on a Revised Proposal Regarding the Consolidated FINRA Rules Governing FINRA’s Membership Application Proceedings
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
Regulatory Notice 08-37 - FINRA Reminds Firms that the Trading Activity Fee Is Assessed on Exchange-Listed Options Transactions when FINRA Is the DOEA
Sec. 4.14 (a) A Director or a National Adjudicatory Council or committee member shall not directly or indirectly participate in any adjudication of the interests of any party if that Director or National Adjudicatory Council or committee member has a conflict of interest or bias, or if circumstances otherwise exist where his or her fairness might reasonably be questioned. In any such
Small Firm Advisory Board Runoff Election
FINRA announced today that it has fined M1 Finance LLC $850,000 for social media posts made by influencers on the firm’s behalf that were not fair or balanced, or contained exaggerated, unwarranted, promissory, or misleading claims.
FINRA (f/k/a National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ("NASD")) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC" or "Commission") a proposed rule change to delete in their entirety the NASD Rule 4000D, 6000D and 7000D Series and the Limited Liability Company Agreement of The NASD/BSE Trade Reporting Facility LLC (the "NASD/BSE TRF LLC
District Elections
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District Elections
Executive Summary
Through this Notice, NASD announces the election results for the District Committees and the District Nominating Committees. The newly elected District Committee members will serve until 2006.
District 10 (New York)