TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On January 4, 1988, the NASD will install the Limited Representative—Corporate Securities category of registration on the Central Registration Depository System. This new registration category will qualify persons associated with NASD members to solicit, purchase, or sell corporate securities, as defined in the amendment to
FINRA has observed unusual price activity after the IPOs of certain small-cap issuers with operations outside the U.S. Regulators suspect some of these IPOs might have been manipulated in a ramp-and-dump scheme. If you’re solicited to invest in a newly issued small-cap stock, know the warning signs and take precautions.
Proposed New Rules Governing Communications About Variable Insurance Products; Comment Period Expired: September 30, 2008
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Executive Summary
On April 30, 1993, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved an amendment to Article III, Section 35 of the Rules of Fair Practice and the Investment Company Securities section of the NASD Manual. The amendment adds language relating to investment companies to Article III, Section
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On December 30, 1992, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted the NASD's request for interim designation of the OTC Bulletin Board® service (OTCBB) as a "Qualifying Electronic Quotation System" (QEQ System) for purposes of certain SEC Penny Stock Disclosure Rules that became
To whom it may concern:
People nowadays have internet resources that are comparable to those of the Wall Street investors. I, for example, uses excel to calculate risk and rewards based on data collected from various brokerages/yahoo finance/bloomberg/LPLfinance...etc. A test imposed by regulators may have nothing to do with my excel calculations and probably remotely relevant to the success of
I am a retail and self-directed investor mainly trading and investing in US listed leverage & inverse ETFs and associated exchange traded options. I am also a finance professional with work experiences in investment advisory on vanilla and structured products, including equities, fixed income, interest rates and currencies, in overseas jurisdictions outside of the US, and hold MBA and CFA
Chairman Dodd, Ranking Member Shelby and Members of the Committee: I am Steve Luparello and I currently serve as Interim CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA. On behalf of FINRA, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to testify today.
Thank you very much—it's great to be here. I'd also like to thank President Rebecca Laird, and also Leslie Woolley, Chair of the Luncheon Committee, for the gracious invitation to meet with you. There is so much going on in our markets that it's hard to know what to talk about.
The staff granted an exemption from FINRA Rule 5130 with respect to purchases of “new issues” by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
