After reviewing Regulatory Notice #22-08, I, who am a retail investor using leveraged funds for approximately 8 years, believe the concerns and educational requirements being proposed by FINRA to be justified and appropriate. I would like to differentiate between risk levels for various types of products. Leveraged ETFs tracking very large underlying markets such as S&P500, the DOW
Report Brings Attention to Opportunities and Risks Presented by the Technology
WASHINGTON— FINRA released today a new report, Quantum Computing and the Implications for the Securities Industry. While practical quantum computing remains nascent, the research examines how the emerging technology that relies on quantum mechanics to perform complex calculations could significantly alter the
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Thanks very much, Lee [Covington], and it's great to be with you today. Your introduction was very kind, but when you really get down to it, you described two things of significance to this audience: one of which is I didn't seem to be very good at holding a job, and the other which is sadly, I'm one of your Baby Boomers that needs to think
Leveraged and inverse funds, like all nearly all investments, are risky. Adequate disclosure of risks should be sufficient for individual investor protection. If regulators do not believe that investors understand the risks from the prospectus, then what does this say about efforts to protect investors in domains beyond these funds? Moreover, what risks are unique to these funds that regulators
WASHINGTON — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today released its
2015 Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter
highlighting significant risks and issues that, if not properly addressed, could adversely affect investors and market integrity. This year's letter, the tenth edition of providing such guidance to firms, focuses on key sales
FINRA has identified potential violations of FINRA Rule 2210 (Communications with the Public) in 70 percent of crypto asset communications it reviewed, according to a report published today on the results of a targeted exam.
WASHINGTON — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has filed a complaint against Los Angeles-based Wedbush Securities Inc. for systemic supervisory and anti-money laundering (AML) violations in connection with providing direct market access and sponsored access to broker-dealers and non-registered market participants.
During the period at issue, Wedbush was
Publication Date: February 23, 2023
Interpretations are marked in blue background beneath the rule text to which they relate.
15c3-1g Conditions for ultimate holding companies of certain brokers or dealers (Appendix G to 17 CFR 240.15c3-1).
As a condition for a broker or dealer to compute certain of its deductions to capital in accordance with § 240.15c3-1e, pursuant to its undertaking, the
Publication Date: February 23, 2023
Interpretations are marked in blue background beneath the rule text to which they relate.
18a-3 Non-cleared security-based swap margin requirements for security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants for which there is not a prudential regulator.
18a-3(a) Every security-based swap dealer and major security-based swap participant for
Each year, FINRA hosts its Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. packed full of panels with information on all the latest compliance trends and emerging regulatory issues. On this episode, we're taking you behind the scenes of this year's Annual Conference to listen in on a conversation between FINRA President and CEO Robert Cook and the Chair of the FINRA Board of Governors, Eric Noll.