Summary
In April 2018, FINRA launched a retrospective review of the annual compliance meeting (ACM) requirement in Rule 3110(a)(7) and corresponding Supplementary Material .04 (SM .04), to assess its effectiveness and efficiency.1 The review is part of an ongoing initiative to periodically look back at a rule or set of rules to ensure they remain relevant and appropriately designed to achieve
FINRA President and CEO Robert Cook and Senior Vice President of Member Relations & Education Chip Jones was joined by Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer Bob Colby and Vice President and Associate General Counsel Jim Wrona to discuss the SEC’s Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI).
Speakers:
Robert Cook, FINRA President and Chief Executive Officer
Chip Jones, Senior Vice
Executive Summary
The purpose of this Election Notice is to notify firms of the upcoming elections to fill vacancies on the FINRA Regional Committees, and the mailing of ballots to eligible firms.
Firms that are members of FINRA as of the close of business on Friday, October 18, 2019, are eligible to vote for the contested seats on the Regional Committee corresponding to the district in which
Executive Summary
The purpose of this Election Notice is notify FINRA small firm members that ballots to elect one New York Region representative to the Small Firm Advisory Committee (SFAC) have been mailed to all eligible firms. FINRA small firm members1 in the New York Region as of the close of business on Friday, October 18, 2019, are eligible to vote in these elections. All eligible firms
In an effort to streamline the processing of information requests, FINRA is consolidating the number of request types that are sent to member firms from Member Supervision. The five new categories are: Firm Exam Request, Cause Exam Request, Trading and Financial Compliance Examinations (TFCE) Firm Exam Request, TFCE Cause Exam Request, and Statutory Disqualification. This change to Member
The FINRA Test Facility (NTF) is currently unavailable for testing all FINRA Multi Product Platform (MPP) products. This affects FINRA's Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE), FINRA's Trade Reporting Facility (TRF) platform, and the OTC Reporting Facility (ORF). Please note, because of this event any data entered into NTF this morning will be unavailable once the
Executive Summary
FINRA is issuing this Notice to help firms review, reconcile and respond to their Final Statements in E-Bill as well as view the reports that are currently available in Web CRD/IARD for the annual registration renewal process. The payment deadline is January 17, 2020.
Please direct questions concerning this Notice to the FINRA Call Center at (301) 869-6699.
Background &
(a) Requirements for Public Offerings
(1) General
(A) No member or person associated with a member shall participate in a public offering in which the terms and conditions relating thereto, including the aggregate amount of underwriting compensation, are unfair or unreasonable pursuant to this Rule or inconsistent with any By-Law or any rule or regulation of FINRA.
(B) Any member acting as a
Any member of FINRA that is also a member of the New York Stock Exchange LLC ("NYSE") ("Dual Member") (including any persons affiliated with such member) may be subject to a fine under Rule 9216(b) with respect to any rule or By-Law provision listed in this Rule that applies to such member or person. However, any Dual Member that was not also a member of NASD as of July 30,
(a) Filing Requirements
Each member that sells a security in a non-public offering in reliance on an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act ("private placement") must: (i) submit to FINRA, or have submitted on its behalf by a designated member, a copy of any private placement memorandum, term sheet or other offering document, including any materially amended
