Investments are risky business, so the investors must face it or they should leave this field. In this regard, investors should know best how to take care of themselves. In the proposal, the complex products and options are defined more riskier, no matter what which I can’t agree for two reasons.
The first, when talking investment risk, we need to have a benchmark. In equity market which is the
Warning: Rule #22-08 is currently the subject of a deceptive advertising attack. Let's play "which of these is not like the others": * Target Date Funds * Funds using cryptocurrency futures * Reverse Convertible Notes * Volatility-Linked Funds The answer is "Target Date Funds". I don't use this, I don't intend to use this; but it's an old tool that's
Comments: I do believe having transparency is important. Regulators have done great things in the past to clarify concepts that a layman does not interact with regularly. Thanks to regulators, banks have to disclose APR's with clients, ensuring that the risks are fully understood. However, I feel that this level of scrutiny is unwarranted, biased, exclusionary, and has an unfair impact
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) appreciates the opportunity to submit this statement for the record of the Committee’s hearing to examine fraud among senior investors.
Most of us know someone who has been a victim of a financial scam, or we may have been a target ourselves. If you’ve been impacted by this type of crime, there are ways you can get assistance. These six steps can help you reclaim power from the fraudsters and begin to move forward.
Omer Meisel leads FINRA’s National Cause and Financial Crimes Detections Program (NCFC), which includes the National Cause Program (NCP) and Complex Investigations and Intelligence (CII). Mr. Meisel leads teams that conduct investigations and examinations of firms and gather intelligence to detect financial crimes and inform FINRA and firms of emerging threats and risks to the financial industry.
The honors program is a two-year rotational program open to recent law school graduates and attorneys concluding clerkships. These full-time positions offer the opportunity to do sophisticated legal work to protect investors and the financial markets.
As announced in the December 15, 2008 OATS Reporting Technical Specifications, the Limit Order Display Indicator on the New Order, Combined Order/Route, Combined Order/Execution and Cancel/Replace reports is being renamed the “Customer Instruction Flag” to better reflect the purpose of the field.
FINRA is a not-for-profit, self-regulatory organization (SRO) dedicated to promoting investor protection and market integrity in a manner that facilitates vibrant capital markets. One of FINRA’s tools for achieving this objective is fair and effective enforcement of member firms’ compliance with securities laws and regulations.
FINRA’s highest priority when it identifies misconduct is to seek
Testimony Concerning Auction Rate Securities Markets, Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives
