Comments: Back in the 1990s when I started it was quite common for people who wanted to trade leveraged diversified products to establish a mutual fund account at Rydex (now part of Guggenheim). There were other products which were similar at the time though I think most have closed. The most popular trading were the Fidelity Select funds which had a 3% load specifically to allow for more rapid
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Due to the growth in sales and the popularity of variable life insurance products, NASD
How can a firm find out which registered individuals have completed their current CE requirement?
Firms will continue to have access to dynamic reports in FINRA Gateway to assist with tracking the CE status of registered individuals. This report shows which individuals have begun and completed CE.
Can firms set up notifications for registered individuals about their CE requirements?
[REDACTED] may go down when you continuously take power out of the hands of the people. First its taking everything down, and imposing manipulative quieting of political agenda/ideas not your own. Now you wanna make it impossible for anyone other than gazillionaires to live.this is not sustainable, nor constitutionally upheld behavior.there is a difference between patriotism and right wing dom.
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.
A free market system is exactly what we need. When I say free market I mean the ability of the retail investor to make their own decisions based on their own personal risk/reward assessment. Retail investors are legal adults who are rational and responsible for their own actions. Retail investors are quite capable of using their own judgement to manage their money. Every responsible adult is
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(1) In furtherance of FINRA's obligations to foster cooperation and coordination of the clearing, settling and processing of transactions in equity and debt securities of any issuer with a class of publicly traded, non-exchange listed, securities in the OTC market and, in general, to protect investors and the public interest, FINRA's Operations Department ("Department
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FINRA warns member firms of a widespread, ongoing phishing campaign that involves fraudulent emails purporting to be from FINRA officers, including Bill Wollman and Josh Drobnyk (see Attachment A). These emails have a source domain name “@broker-finra.org” and request immediate attention to an attachment relating to your firm. In at least in some cases, the emails do not actually include
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FINRA has adopted new rules to address brokers with a significant history of misconduct and the broker-dealers that employ them.1 The new rules:
allow a Hearing Officer to impose conditions or restrictions on the activities of a Respondent member firm or Respondent associated person, and require the member firm employing a Respondent associated person to
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