By Jason Foye, Chief of FINRA’s Crypto Hub
FINRA’s core mission is to protect investors and promote market integrity. This mission is at the heart of everything we do. An important example of this mission in action is our work to address the unique regulatory challenges presented by the activities of our member firms that relate to crypto assets—also known as digital assets—which are assets
TRACE research performed up until this point has been done on an independent basis by academics and researchers who used objective methodology in order to achieve their conclusions. These studies have concentrated on United States-based corporate bond data and what, if any, the impact of TRACE has been on liquidity and transparency.
(a) Each OTC Market Maker displaying a priced quotation in any OTC Equity Security in an inter-dealer quotation system shall publish immediately a bid or offer that reflects:
(1) The price and the full size of each customer limit order held by the OTC Market Maker that is at a price that would improve the bid or offer of such OTC Market Maker in such security; and
(2) The full size of
If you’re interested in over-the-counter (OTC) trading, you might have heard about dark pools, a type of alternative trading system (ATS) that was designed to handle large trades for institutional investors anonymously. Dark pools allow large buyers and sellers to trade large blocks of shares without causing the market to move against them.
SEC Approves Amendments to Require Firms to Add a No-Remuneration Indicator in TRACE Trade Report
I would like to weigh-in on the regulations being considered by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), to limit the availability of individual investors investing in leveraged and inverse funds, and other like investments without strict testing and special approvals by their broker.
Its my opinion that some brokers, who are part of FINRA are the reason that people like me seek other
I have been investing for over 20 years, mainly in common stocks but sometimes in so-called “complex products” like futures, options, leveraged and inverse ETPs, etc. I use them when I believe they are suitable tools for the market situation at that moment. I don’t mean that I always make right investment decisions but, as a retail investor, I find that it is very important for me to have the
What is more diabolical? Taking away the ability for everyday anyone's to protect their wealth, and maybe even obtain large gains during a market bear, or not making the knowledge about these products more readily available for the everyday anyone to educate themselves on how to use them properly, and to their best advantage. Or is doing both the most diabolical?
These assets are not
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