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FINRA staff provide an overview of SEC Rule 15b9-1, the application process, licensing and reporting requirements, and surveillance and oversight post-application approval for firms affected by the adopted amendments.
(a) A member may hold mail for a customer who will not be receiving mail at his or her usual address, provided that:
(1) the member receives written instructions from the customer that include the time period during which the member is requested to hold the customer's mail. If the requested time period included in the instructions is longer than three consecutive months (including any
(a) Before First Hearing Session Begins
Before the first hearing session begins, the Director may remove an arbitrator for conflict of interest or bias, either upon request of a party or on the Director's own initiative.
(1) The Director will grant a party's request to remove an arbitrator if it is reasonable to infer, based on information known at the time of the request,
(a) This rule provides procedures under which parties and arbitrators may communicate directly.
(b) Only parties that are represented by counsel may use direct communication under this rule. If, during the proceeding, a party chooses to appear without counsel, this rule shall no longer apply.
(c) All arbitrators and all parties must agree to the use of direct communication during the
(a)(1) Unless otherwise permitted by FINRA, a capital acquisition broker must suspend all business operations during any period in which it is not in compliance with applicable net capital requirements set forth in SEA Rule 15c3-1.
(2) FINRA may issue a notice pursuant to FINRA Rule 9557 directing a capital acquisition broker that is not in compliance with applicable net capital
(a) This rule provides procedures under which parties and arbitrators may communicate directly.
(b) Only parties that are represented by counsel may use direct communication under this rule. If, during the proceeding, a party chooses to appear without counsel, this rule shall no longer apply.
(c) All arbitrators and all parties must agree to the use of direct
The Best Execution section of the 2022 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.
A clearing member may use negative response letters to assign orphan accounts to an introducing broker-dealer on the clearing member’s platform.
Dear Ms. Dyer:
I am responding to your letter dated March 10, 2023, as supplemented by conversations with the staff, in which you seek interpretive guidance regarding the use of negative response letters by National Financial Services LLC (“NFS”) to
As previously announced FINRA delayed the implementation of the bandwidth increase rate for the Trade Data Dissemination Service 2.1 (TDDS 2.1) vendor feed. The bandwidth is scheduled to increase from 2,500 kilobits per second (Kbps) to 3,000 kilobits per second (Kbps).
The new date for this implementation is now Monday, August 14, 2023.
Testing
FINRA will test the new bandwidth rate on
Note, this is an implementation date change.1
Effective Tuesday, August 30, 2022, the FINRA TRACE, ADF and ORF Web API reference data downloads will no longer be accessible using the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.1 protocol. FINRA will disable TLS 1.1, and firms using that protocol will not be able to establish connectivity to FINRA’s secure web servers to download the files. To gain access