1. Disciplinary sanctions should be designed to protect the investing public by deterring misconduct and upholding high standards of business conduct.
The purpose of FINRA's disciplinary process is to protect the investing public, support and improve the overall business standards in the securities industry, and decrease the likelihood of recurrence of misconduct by the disciplined
NASD would like to remind members of their obligation to file the appropriate FOCUS reports, Schedule I filings, Annual Audits, Customer Complaints and Short Interest reports by their due dates.
Exemptive relief is granted based on: representations that at the time of the contribution the individual was not employed by the firm and was not an MFP; the firm already had a significant business relationship with the state of whom the contribution recipient is an issuer official (as defined); the firm has instituted information barriers on certain municipal business communications; the individual will be prohibited from the solicitation of certain new municipal business for a period of time.
FINRA Announces Amendments to Make Permanent the Pilot Program Increasing Positions and Exercise Limits for Stock Options; Effective Date: February 28, 2008
FINRA Secures Relief for Member Firms for Certain Record Retention Requirements; Effective Date: February 19, 2008
FINRA Adopts Amendments Relating to Regulation NMS Plan to Address Extraordinary Market Volatility
The TRACE Markup/Markdown Analysis Report is a monthly report designed to assist firms in their supervision activities by providing transparency into a portion of FINRA's surveillance program of corporate and agency fixed income transactions customer pricing.
The TRACE Markup/Markdown Analysis Report is built upon logic developed to pair purchase and sale transactions reported to
(a) Recovery of cost of services. FINRA shall, in accordance with this section, collect member regulatory fees that are designed to recover the costs to FINRA of the supervision and regulation of members, including performing examinations, financial monitoring, and policy, rulemaking, interpretive, and enforcement activities. FINRA shall periodically review these revenues in conjunction with
Notice of Annual Meeting of FINRA Firms and Proxy
FINRA Requests Comment on a Revised Proposal to Require a Hyperlink to BrokerCheck in Online Retail Communications With the Public