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All capital acquisition brokers are subject to FINRA Rule 5122.
Adopted by SR-FINRA-2015-054 eff. April 14, 2017.Selected Notice: 16-37.
The Outside Business Activities and Private Securities Transactions section of the 2021 Report on FINRA’s Risk Monitoring and Examination Activities (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) relevant regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) exam findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
The landscape of types of investment products is quite broad, and extends well beyond stocks, bonds and mutual funds, which are familiar to many investors. We’ll give you an overview of major investment categories—those that have been around for decades and some that are emerging.
This Report on FINRA’s Risk Monitoring and Examination Activities (the Report) is designed to inform member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations. For selected regulatory obligations, the Report: (1) identifies the applicable rule and key related considerations for member firm compliance programs, (2) summarizes noteworthy findings from recent examinations and outlines effective practices that FINRA observed during its oversight, and (3) provides additional resources that may be helpful to member firms.
FINRA is reviewing activities of member firms acting as or working with placement agents in soliciting and/or obtaining business with municipalities and public pension funds.
Washington, D.C. - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today announced the publication of guidance for FINRA-registered firms about their obligations regarding customer suitability, disclosures and other requirements for selling private placements to customers, an area where recent examinations and enforcement actions have revealed a significant lack of regulatory compliance.
Frequently asked questions about private placements.
Options are complex instruments that can play a number of different roles within an investment portfolio, but buying and selling options can be risky, and trading the products requires specific approval from an investor’s brokerage firm. Equity options are derivative contracts that give the purchaser the right, and the seller the obligation, to buy or sell, a security at a fixed price within a specific period of time.
This episode originally aired in April 2021.The brokerage industry has an important role to play when it comes to detecting, preventing and reporting fraud. On this episode, we hear from the then-head of FINRA's National Cause and Financial Crimes Detection Programs about recent trends and how firms can work to protect themselves and their customers.
The brokerage industry has an important role to play when it comes to detecting, preventing and reporting fraud. On this episode, we hear from the head of FINRA's National Cause and Financial Crimes Detection Programs about recent trends and how firms can work to protect themselves and their customers.