FINRA announced today the results of its election of three Governors to its Board of Governors during the annual meeting of FINRA member firms on Wednesday. The elected Governors include: Large Firm Governor — John Vaccaro, Chair and CEO, MML Investors Services; Head of MassMutual Financial Advisors; Mid-Size Firm Governor — James Crowley, CEO, Pershing Advisor Solutions; Senior Executive Vice President, Global Head of BNY Pershing Small Firm Governor — Jennifer Szaro, Chief Compliance Officer, XML Securities
The purpose of this Election Notice is to notify firms of the elections to fill vacancies on the FINRA Regional Committees, and the mailing of ballots to eligible firms.
The Treasury Aggregate Statistics provide trading volume in U.S. Treasury securities reported to TRACE for the prior week. The reports have been published since March 2020. On January 3, 2023, FINRA will enhance the reports as follows:
The weekly data reports will be replaced with daily and monthly reports. The last weekly report will be published on January 4, 2023 for the week
I am a retail investor and use leveraged ETFs for a portion of my portfolio. Before buying these leveraged ETFs, I did a significant amount of research to understand the risks. This included back testing how the funds would behave in different market and monetary conditions. I also read the prospectuses for the funds. All this information was available and provided sufficient information on the
This Friday – July 1, 2022 – will mark the 20th anniversary of FINRA’s Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine, known as TRACE to everyone in the fixed income industry and regulatory community. TRACE is FINRA’s real-time, over-the-counter price dissemination service for the fixed-income market, bringing transparency to the debt markets, including corporate and agency debt as well as asset- and
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
SUMMARY
The NASD Board of Governors believes it is necessary to clarify its policy with respect to trading in stock and index options by members or persons associated with a member while in possession of material, non-public market information concerning imminent transactions of block size. Under certain circumstances, this type of activity,
As a retail investor I would like to see many changes made to the way you gather short position information. I like collecting the information daily and also reporting synthetic shares. It seems to me that the market markers and hedge funds have way too much freedom to do as they see fit with very little oversight and little to no punishment handed out when they are caught in the wrong. Real
Every day, FINRA's Insider Trading Detection Program uses sophisticated technology and analytics to monitor 100% of trading in stocks, options and bonds for potentially suspicious activity around material news events, resulting in hundreds of referrals to the SEC and law enforcement every year. On this episode, we hear how the team connects trading data, information from public sources and from companies and FINRA firms to pull together actionable intelligence.
SR-FINRA-2008-062 - Proposed Rule Change to Adopt FINRA Rule 2267 (Investor Education and Protection) in the Consolidated FINRA Rulebook
Summary
FINRA has received an increasing number of reports regarding customer account takeover (ATO) incidents, which involve bad actors using compromised customer information, such as login credentials (i.e., username and password), to gain unauthorized entry to customers’ online brokerage accounts.
To help firms prevent, detect and respond to such attacks, FINRA recently organized roundtable
