Any member of FINRA that is also a member of the New York Stock Exchange LLC ("NYSE") ("Dual Member") (including any persons affiliated with such member) may be subject to a fine under Rule 9216(b) with respect to any rule or By-Law provision listed in this Rule that applies to such member or person. However, any Dual Member that was not also a member of NASD as of July 30,
401(k) and Other Employer-Sponsored PlansEmployer-sponsored retirement plans are just that: retirement plans offered by an employer to help its employees save for retirement. Plans are named for the section of the tax code where they’re described. Most are salary-deferral plans, meaning a plan in which the employee designates a portion of their salary to be deducted and put into the retirement
By Greg Ruppert, Executive Vice President, Member Supervision, FINRA
As a self-regulatory organization, FINRA is uniquely positioned to engage with member firms to understand their business models and provide them with timely, actionable insights and information. As part of FINRA Forward, FINRA is working to enhance how we support member firm compliance to better protect investors and safeguard markets, including strengthening the constructive feedback loop from FINRA’s regulatory programs to our member firms. Sharing information gathered through our regulatory programs can help member firms improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their compliance capabilities, understand how their compliance programs compare to other firms, and potentially avoid issues that might otherwise develop into compliance failures.
FINRA has provided transparency to over-the-counter equities (OTCE) trading for years through its public website.
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Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to spend some time with you discussing complex products. I'm sure you know that this has been a priority for FINRA examiners. I would like to share some of what we have learned so far.
It is one thing to protect the retirement assets of individuals from extremely risky or highly speculative investments but complete overreach to attempt to restrict investments in taxable accounts. You would be better focused attempting to level the playing field in our flawed public markets. Why have so many companies gone private? Why is the Fed allowed to so manipulate markets for so long
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FINRA has amended the requirements relating to Covered Agency Transactions that FINRA originally adopted in 2016. Covered Agency Transactions include (1) To Be Announced transactions, inclusive of adjustable rate mortgage transactions, (2) Specified Pool Transactions and (3) transactions in Collateralized Mortgage Obligations, issued in conformity with a program of an agency or
Remarks by Richard Ketchum From the SIFMA C&L New York Regional Seminar
