FINRA Requests Comment on a Revised Proposal to Require a Hyperlink to BrokerCheck in Online Retail Communications With the Public
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The report is intended to raise awareness among FINRA member firms and the broader securities industry by providing an overview of how developments related to the metaverse may impact business models and processes. While the true implications of the metaverse may not be known for years, the report analyzes potential applications, use cases and challenges for member firms and notes certain regulatory considerations.
News reports stating that FINRA has approved a security for trading, quoting or listing are wrong in virtually every respect. FINRA does not ever qualitatively evaluate or approve a security such as a stock. Instead, FINRA verifies a broker-dealer can demonstrate it has completed its required diligence to begin quoting.
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While requiring disclosure of additional information regarding complex financial products seems good in principle, it seems quite possible that this will be yet another textual agreement that almost nobody reads and most people click through. Figuring out who needs the information provided and how to present it in a way that they will understand it seems important.
However, requiring testing to
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To Whom It May Concern, Regarding the Proprietary and Customer Account Categorization, I support specifying short interest held across proprietary accounts and customer accounts for each equity security as of the close of the reporting settlement data. As a logical extension, I recommend requiring short interest held in EACH proprietary account and customer account for each equity security, and
I support this effort to improve the accuracy, requirements, and meaning behind the short interest metric. A more expansive reporting requirement that captures synthetic short positions would allow FINRA to be better able to understand market participants’ short sale-related activity. As synthetic short positions provide equivalent exposure, information on them may also provide investors and
