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FINRA’s Corporate Financing Rules—Rules 5110, 2310 and 5121—generally compel firms that participate in public offerings of securities to fulfil three requirements:
Firms must file documents and other information in connection with public offerings. These documents include registration statements or offering circulars and their exhibits and amendments. The documents must be submitted no later
On This PageOverview of Margin RequirementsExtensions of TimeInterpretations of FINRA's Margin RuleCustomer Margin Balance Reporting and Margin StatisticsPortfolio MarginCovered Agency Transaction MarginMargin Disclosure StatementsExternal ResourcesContact OGCOverview of Margin RequirementsThe terms on which FINRA member firms (brokers) can extend credit for securities transactions are
The Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act of 2014 provided Americans with disabilities the opportunity to save in a tax-deferred account as a supplement to their government benefits.
By Bill St. Louis, Executive Vice President and Head of FINRA EnforcementFINRA Enforcement works on the front lines of investor protection. This blog post discusses some of the key objectives that drive this critical work.First, some brief background about FINRA and the role Enforcement plays as part of a multi-faceted regulatory program.FINRA helps ensure that everyone can participate in the
I Oppose Restrictions To My Right to Invest in Complex Products, including Leveraged and Inverse funds! Any attempt to impose restrictions on the individuals right to buy these trading instruments gives the large trading firms an unfair advantage and makes the market unfair to us. Large firms have resources to use trading programs and other trading tools which individual investors do not have.
The idea that everyday people need to be "protected" from themselves with further regulation and restrictive safeguards pertaining to "complex investment products" is absolute nonsense and contradicts the very principals of a free and open marketplace. Real problems like naked short selling and big money manipulation goes completely unchecked, yet the magnifying glass is on
Thank you, Kayte [Toczylowski, FINRA’s head of Member Relations and Education], and good morning, everyone. It is so wonderful to see you. I am delighted to join Kayte in welcoming you to the 2023 FINRA Annual Conference.
Inverse and Leveraged funds are an important part of ability to protect my portfolio. In down markets such as currently exists, in which the markets begin falling overnikght or in the free makret and acceIetate to downside the funds provide important day to day portfolio insurance without taking the much more extreme risk of short selling. In additiion, in strong bull markets the leveraged
Yes to all. The more transparent, the better. The sooner, the better. Reporting should be on a daily basis, regardless of cost, and I feel that these practices should apply to ALL firms, member or otherwise. This needs to be an across the board regulatory process. The application of these changes, based on membership, will certainly be a cause of competitive discrepancies and will eventually
This extremely unjust and should not take away our rights to invest and try and better our lives. This is NOT fair and should be treated as criminal to take away our right to freely explore better options for our lives.