From our review of FINRA’s website information on diversity and Regulatory Notice 21-17, it is our opinion that your efforts are commendable and on target to promoting and encouraging diversity in the industry and at FINRA. The programs that you have established e.g. your Internal Racial Justice Task Force, Annual Diversity Summit and the Racial Justice Task Force should help identify barriers to
A member inter-dealer quotation system (whether or not also an alternative trading system or “ATS” as defined by Rule 300(a) of SEC Regulation ATS) that permits quotation updates on a real-time basis in OTC Equity Securities must comply with the following requirements:
(a) The member inter-dealer quotation system must establish, maintain and enforce written policies and procedures
FINRA’s Regulation Best Interest Conference, held on December 18, 2019, in Washington, DC was a one-day event designed to bring regulators, executives and industry practitioners together to learn more about Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI).
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I urge you NOT to restrict ordinary investors from trading leveraged and inverse ETFs for the following reasons:
1. Inverse and inverse leveraged ETFs are often the only vehicles available to ordinary investors to hedge their cash and retirement accounts in a down market, or even to profit from down markets. Wealthy investors have many means to do this. Taking these products away from ordinary
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Dear FINRA, I oppose this legislation because you are instituting more constraints on my freedom to manage my investments as I see fit. We already must review and sign documents from our broker informing us of the risks and potential losses on all leveraged investments before we can purchase those investments. In fact, I had to state my investment objectives were "most aggressive" to
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This notification is to warn member firms of an ongoing phishing campaign that involves fraudulent emails purporting to be from FINRA and using the domain names “@finrarps.org” or “@finrarps.net”. The domains of “finrarps.org” and “finrarps.net” are not connected to FINRA, and firms should delete all emails originating from these domains. Member firms should be aware that they
I would like clarification on a timeline for these changes to be implemented. How realistic is this change and how far along is it? In addition, do you have any information on what the history would look like and if any historical data will be freely available to us or is it going to be only on a go-forward basis?
Summary
FINRA warns member firms of an ongoing phishing campaign that involves fraudulent emails (see sample in Appendix) purporting to be from FINRA and using the domain name “@gateway-finra.org.” The email asks the recipient to click a link to “view request” and provide information to “complete” that request, noting that “late submission may attract penalties.”
FINRA recommends that
