The Anti-Money Laundering (AML) section of the 2019 Report on Exam Findings informs member firms’ compliance programs by describing recent findings and observations from FINRA’s examinations, and, in certain cases, also providing a summary of effective practices.
The Trusted Contact Persons section of the 2022 Report on FINRA’s Risk Monitoring and Examination Activities (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) relevant regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) exam findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission recently approved amendments to Appendix E to Article III, Section 33, of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice. These amendments will require members to develop and maintain written
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On July 19, 1995, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved new NASD Mediation Rules (Rules) to take effect August 1, 1995. The new Rules provide a structure for the NASD to administer a Mediation Program as an informal and less adversarial alternative to
Rule 2220 was intended to apply only to standardized options; therefore, advertisements, educational material and sales literature regarding conventional options need not be submitted to the Department for pre-use review and approval. However, advertisements, educational material and sales literature regarding conventional options remain subject to the general standards in both Rules 2210 and 2220 that prohibit untrue, false or misleading statements.
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
The methods used in calculating yields on mutual funds and unit investment trusts, whose primary objective is the provision of income, and the manner in which such are presented to the public have been the subject of mounting interest and comment during the past year. The NASD has received complaints from its members, the staff of the Securities
Ive been recently informed of you trying to impose regulations & restrictions disqualifying normal people/investors from investing into crypto funds. I wanted to express my concern to everyone involved in hurting my portfolio & stopping me from investing into crypto funds such as BITO. I myself should be able to choose my own investments which are right for me, I take financial
May 9, 2022 Jennifer Piorko Mitchell, JD, MBA Office of the Corporate Secretary FINRA 1735 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 Re: FINRA Regulatory Notice 22-08 Dear Ms. Mitchell: Thank you for giving the public an opportunity to comment on the Regulatory Notice 22-08. I am a professor of accounting at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. I oppose the rules proposed in Notice 22-08. These rules
I have been responsibly using leveraged ETFs as a single-digit percentage of my portfolio for almost three years now, and I personally find the notion that they now could be restricted from individual investors to be utterly outrageous. I am stuck dealing with grossly subpar investments via my pension and Social Security (while I understand the rationale for Social Security writ large), and I
I am opposed to FINRA interfering with my right to invest in funds such as BITO. I am opposed having to get special approval from my broker to invest in any security they are licensed to trade, I am opposed to having to attest to having read an materials. I am opposed to being required to go through and cooling off period, l am opposed to being required to taking a test imposed by a regulated of
