Bonds can be issued by corporations, local municipalities, government agencies and the federal government. Performing due diligence can help you assess the many characteristics that are associated with these fixed-income securities and evaluate overall suitability with your investing needs.
FINRA’s Board of Governors met on December 4-5. The agenda included discussions around FINRA’s 2025 budget, FINRA’s Outside Business Activities and Private Securities Transactions rules, and an overview of the 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report.
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Dear NASD Member:
As you know, there have been numerous events that have greatly impacted the industry in recent years. These events have resulted in new and amended regulations implemented by Congress, the SEC, or NASD for which we must examine. Since NASD conducts routine examinations of firms on one, two, and four year
Uninvested cash is a potentially valuable part of your investment portfolio. So it pays to pay attention to it, especially when interest rates move up or down. Understand the facts about your uninvested cash, the different cash management programs available and questions to ask.
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Initial plans for Nasdaq® decimalization testing are included in this Notice to Members. Also, a summary is provided of the industry critical dates.
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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.
WASHINGTON—FINRA has ordered three firms—Edward Jones, Osaic Wealth, Inc. and Cambridge Investment Research, Inc.—to pay more than $8.2 million in restitution to customers who were harmed by the firms’ failures to provide available mutual fund sales charge waivers and fee rebates on mutual fund purchases. FINRA did not impose any fines in connection with these matters in recognition of each firm’s extraordinary cooperation with FINRA’s investigations.
As a self-regulatory organization, information sharing is key to FINRA's pursuit of its mission of investor protection and market integrity, and no single resource is a better example of that than FINRA's Annual Regulatory Oversight Report. On this episode, we hear from four leaders within FINRA's Member Supervision department to discuss highlights from the 2024 report.
Kayte Toczylowski is Vice President of Member Relations and Education for FINRA. In leading the Member Relations and Education Department, Ms. Toczylowski’s responsibilities include maintaining and enhancing open and effective dialog with FINRA member firms. Ms. Toczylowski also oversees FINRA’s Member Education area, which
