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Each year, FINRA publishes its Annual Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter to highlight issues of importance to FINRA's regulatory programs.
Cover Letter From FINRA President and CEO, Robert Cook
January 8, 2018
As is our practice, we are marking the start of the new year by publishing our
With the holiday season upon us and 2023 coming to an end, FINRA’s Cyber and Analytics Unit (CAU) would like to remind member firms to prepare for cyber threats and attacks that may occur around the holidays. Member firms and their vendors should consider reviewing and validating their Written Supervisory Procedures (WSPs), continuing to educate their employees with respect to cybersecurity and effective practices, and testing incident response plans (IRPs) to prepare for, prevent, or recover from an incident.
Dear FINRA REGULATORS:
As a registered rep. for Hornblower & Weeks at 40 Wall, NYC, in 1960 and later at their uptown offices on Park Avenue at 50th, I became a devotee of Elliot Wave Theory and Edwards and Magee's Tech Stock studies. I had several times visited the packed, busy floor of the NY Stock Exchange on Broad Street, which today is virtually barren of human life.
I am writing to protest the planned FINRA regulatory notice #22-08 that would restrict my right to invest in leveraged and/or inverse ETF products. These types of investment products are not for everyone but they do serve an important role in hedging and investment strategies for experienced investors who understand and can managed the inherent risks. Furthermore, banning these investment
SummaryThe purpose of this Election Notice is to: (1) notify members of an upcoming election to fill one large firm seat and one small firm seat on the National Adjudicatory Council (NAC); (2) announce the FINRA Nominating & Governance Committee (Nominating Committee) nominees for these vacancies; and (3) describe the procedures to be included as an additional large or small firm
Dear FINRA, I am very concerned to learn about possible upcoming restrictions regarding my ability, as an independent small investor, to use complex investments such as leveraged and inverse ETFs. I am scared that these public investments will cease to be available to normal people like me and reserved only for a "privileged elite" of super-rich people and institutions to get richer. I
In the United States, each individual should and have the right to be responsible for ones own decisions regarding his/her own life matters, including ones assets and possessions. Everyone ought to be able to invest in all public securities, since they are to the public. Diversify ones portfolio is a balanced way to invest. Leveraged and inverse funds are part of the vehicles to diversity, which
In my opinion, investors should have the right to decide which public equities, bonds, ETF's and mutual funds they want to buy. The FINRA plan puts this right on the government and regulators, not us. This eliminates our right to decide what is best for me.
Although it is too early to tell, we might be experiencing a major shift in the markets. Let me explain. For the last 40 years
Sec. 1. The Board shall elect a Chief Executive Officer, who shall be responsible for the management and administration of its affairs and shall be the official representative of the Corporation in all public matters and who shall have such powers and duties in the management of the Corporation as may be prescribed in a resolution by the Board, and which powers and duties shall not be
Mr. Seek joined FINRA in September 2020. He has been a trusted advisor to his business partners, clients and peers for more than 19 years. Over his career he has enjoyed working with his business partners to provide candid, practical advice on internal controls and process design. He actively networks with peers and shares information and stories on best practices, emerging trends, and
