The Best Execution, Outside Business Activities and Private Securities Transactions, Private Placements, and Reg BI and Form CRS sections of the 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
The Best Execution, Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) and Disclosure of Routing Information sections of the 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
The Firm Short Positions and Fails-to-Receive in Municipal Securities and Fixed Income – Fair Pricing sections of the 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
The Fractional Shares: Reporting and Order Handling section of the 2023 Report on FINRA’s Examination and Risk Monitoring Program (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that the integrity of the United States market has been strained to the edge of disaster, in large part due to systemic risk developed under the regulatory authority of FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. I understand FINRA is attempting to create a fairer and transparent market but without strict reporting policies in place you
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Good morning, and thank you, Professor [Reena] Aggarwal for that kind introduction and the invitation to join you today. Under your leadership, Georgetown’s Center for Financial Markets and Policy has come to be an important forum for discussing current policy and regulatory issues facing the global financial markets. We all owe you and your colleagues at the Center a
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I have been trading leveraged securities for many years starting with Guggenheim Funds (previously traded as Leveraged RYDEX Funds). My success with these investments helped me finance 100% college educations of my 2 sons, all way to JD / MBA and Finance MBA. That totals to 14 years of college education. Later, I replaced RYDEX Funds with ETF (TQQQ, SOXL, QLD) to help me with my retirement
As a smaller investor (net worth <$1,000,000), I find that there is great value in being able to trade with a leveraged product. By using a leveraged product that does not require me to use personal margin, I can keep myself debt free, use a leveraged product, obtain the benefit of either rising or falling markets, and hedge long or short. I trade and focus on the S&P 500 only.
Once again, I have been Informed by ProShares that further restrictions are being considered on leveraged and inverse exchange traded funds. As I stated previously, these are among the best vehicles available in the market. I have made my living as an individual investor since February 1980. As I also stated, I have now used these vehicles for more than a decade and they have been consistently
