The United States if a free country. All regulatory agencies have a responsibility to protect our freedoms, not restrict them. All financial regulators have a responsibility to ensure investors are adequately informed, but they have no right to restrict our freedom to invest freely as we choose. By limiting access to investments, you limit innovation and also subject retail investors to the
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FINRA’s Renewal Program supports the collection and disbursement of fees related to the renewal of broker-dealer (BD) and investment adviser (IA) registrations, exempt reporting and notice filings with participating self-regulatory organizations (SRO) and jurisdictions. FINRA communicates information about renewal fees BD and IA firms owe via a Preliminary Statement in November and
Beginning in early December 2022, FINRA will introduce changes to the Trade Data Dissemination Service (TDDS 2.0).1 These changes are being made in concert with FINRA’s technical infrastructure upgrade.
FINRA has made a recent change to the TDDS 2.1 MOLD/UDP 64 NTF Rendezvous Point (RP) address from 207.251.255.40 to 207.251.255.170. The new address is listed and highlighted in the
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to amend FINRA Rule 11880 (Settlement of Syndicate Accounts) to revise the syndicate account settlement timeframe for corporate debt offerings.
The FINRA Test Facility (NTF) for the OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) will be unavailable for testing all day Friday August 5, 2022, Thursday, August 11, 2022, and Friday, August 12, 2022. All other FINRA services, including TRACE and the ADF will be available for testing during this timeframe. The ORF test facility will conduct normal operations on August 8-10 and again beginning on August 15, 2022
I don't agree that there should be restrictions on leveraged and inverse funds. I believe that individuals who invest in these are savvy enough to understand the risks. Restricting access to these investment vehicles would actually discriminate and hurt individuals more than it would help. Thank you for your consideration.
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FINRA has received an increasing number of reports regarding registered representatives and associated persons (representatives) forging or falsifying customer signatures, and in some cases signatures of colleagues or supervisors, through third-party digital signature platforms. Firms have, for example, identified signature issues involving a wide range of forms, including account
This rule would be almost impossible to adhere to for those in market making roles as the time it takes to book trades can take over 1 minute. If market makers need to pause trading responsibilities to book trades within the 1 minute time limit, this would actually cause bond markets to be less efficient.
