I am ashamed at how blatantly our markets are built to generate wealth for a select few at the expense of main st businesses and people. It is an embarrassment that over 100% of a company could be sold short. It is an embarrassment that wall st firms can sell millions of shares short, but mark them long and continue to do business with a laughable fine. It is honestly hard to take FIRNA seriously. If an organization can make a billion dollars breaking a rule and pay a term thousand dollar fine, they will continue doing that forever. You are either complicit or incompetent if you think otherwise. Generating a security that doesn't exist and selling it and never delivering it... That is obviously going to be bad for a market. If it is better for the market to have publicly available data on long positions, then it is equally better for the market to have publicly available data on short positions. All failure to deliver data needs to be public. The failed transaction needs to be reversed in the event of a fail and the party that fails needs a three strikes and they're out policy. Synthetic positions should no longer be allowed to cover short positions.
Michael Shipe Comment On Regulatory Notice 21-19
I am ashamed at how blatantly our markets are built to generate wealth for a select few at the expense of main st businesses and people. It is an embarrassment that over 100% of a company could be sold short. It is an embarrassment that wall st firms can sell millions of shares short, but mark them long and continue to do business with a laughable fine. It is honestly hard to take FIRNA seriously. If an organization can make a billion dollars breaking a rule and pay a term thousand dollar fine, they will continue doing that forever. You are either complicit or incompetent if you think otherwise. Generating a security that doesn't exist and selling it and never delivering it... That is obviously going to be bad for a market. If it is better for the market to have publicly available data on long positions, then it is equally better for the market to have publicly available data on short positions. All failure to deliver data needs to be public. The failed transaction needs to be reversed in the event of a fail and the party that fails needs a three strikes and they're out policy. Synthetic positions should no longer be allowed to cover short positions.