Report of the 2009 Special Review Committee on FINRA’s Examination Program in Light of the Stanford and Madoff Schemes
In April 2009, the FINRA Board of Governors established a special review committee to review FINRA’s examination program, with particular emphasis on the examinations of firms associated with R. Allen Stanford and Bernard L. Madoff. The committee was asked to “recommend ... changes in the examination program, where appropriate, to improve member oversight and FINRA’s fraud detection capability,” and to consider management’s “monitoring [of] compliance with examination program policies.”