INFORMATIONAL
District Elections
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Legal and Compliance Operations Registration Senior Management
District Elections
Executive Summary
In early June, NASD will issue a formal Notice to Members soliciting candidates and explaining the process for nominating individuals to serve on both the District Committees and the District Nominating
SUGGESTED ROUTING:*
Senior ManagementLegal & ComplianceOperations*These are suggested departments only. Others may be appropriate for your firm.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The NASD requests comments on a proposed amendment to the Rules of Fair Practice to require members entering into clearing or carrying agreements to specify the obligations and supervisory responsibilities of both the
OverviewThe following tool identifies key cybersecurity risks currently facing small firms and helps them enhance their customer information protection, and cybersecurity written supervisory programs (WSPs) and related controls, including:Highlighting the most common and recent categories of cybersecurity threats facing small firms, including questions to assist firms with addressing such threats
Agenda
8:00 a.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Registration
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Networking Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 9:05 a.m.
Welcome Remarks
9:05 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Regulation Best Interest: Understanding Your Disclosure, Standard of Care, Conflicts of Interest and Compliance Obligations
Reg BI imposes a number of new obligations on broker-dealers when making securities or
FINRA is providing a template as an optional tool to assist small introducing firms in fulfilling their obligations under FINRA Rule 4370 (Business Continuity Plans and Emergency Contact Information).
FINRA provides dispute resolution services for several exchanges that are not able to staff or operate a dispute resolution program. These services include administration of the exchange's member-member, member-investor and member-employer securities-industry related disputes.
Your brokerage firm may request that you give them the name and contact information of a “trusted contact person.” While it’s not mandatory that you do so, FINRA encourages you to consider providing the name of someone you trust as a contact on your accounts.A trusted contact is like an emergency contact—a person you authorize your brokerage firm to contact in limited circumstances, such as if
For 20 years, FINRA’s Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine, known as TRACE, has contributed to reduced trade execution costs, facilitated price formation, aided regulatory programs and protected investors, as detailed in a recent blog commemorating this milestone anniversary. As an economist, I’d argue TRACE’s impact extends. For me, some of the real impact is in the research it has enabled.
INFORMATIONAL
Customer Account Statements
Effective Date: April 16, 2001
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Legal & Compliance
Limited Partnerships
Operations
Customer Account Statements
Direct Participation Programs
Merchant Banking
NASD Rule 2340
Executive Summary
NASD Regulation, Inc. (NASD RegulationSM) has adopted amendments to National Association of
NASD Rule 1060 exempts from NASD registration requirements individuals registered as floor members with a national securities exchange whose investment banking or securities functions are related solely and exclusively to effecting transactions on the floor of a national securities exchange. Staff interprets "floor members" for purposes of the rule to include individuals working on the floor of the NYSE and registered with the NYSE as sales assistants.<br/>
