Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to eliminate the Order Audit Trail System (“OATS”) rules in the FINRA Rule 7400 Series and FINRA Rule 4554 (Alternative Trading Systems — Recording and Reporting Requirements of Order and Execution Information for NMS Stocks) once members are
Washington, DC - The Board of Governors of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has established a search committee to identify candidates to replace FINRA CEO Mary L. Schapiro, whose nomination to become chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was approved by the U.S. Senate yesterday.
Washington, DC — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today announced the appointment of James P. Donovan as Senior Executive Vice President for Technology and Strategy. In addition to overseeing FINRA's corporate technology and strategy, Donovan is also responsible for registration and disclosure, market transparency facilities, member relations and FINRA's
As a retail investor with over 15 years experience, I would like to urge FINRA to enact, with all haste, any and all new rules or amendments that make the American market more transparent and fair for all investors. For far too long the majority of investors have been in the dark in regards to short interest, robbing us of the ability to make informed decisions while researching and deciding on
Thank you for taking the time to address these issues. As a retail investor I believe short interest in all of its forms including Call/Put options should be publicly available. Much information is hidden from retail and this needs to change. I hope there is serious consideration for how offenders WILL try to overcome the spirit of these regulations. "Enhanced lending" "short
Both I and my husband are individual investors and what we invest in and how much we invest is up to us as long as we are personally responsible for our own investments. To put the proposed regulations upon us is a great misplaced idea and an unacceptable proposal. I do not need to be told what to invest in or take a test to determine my investment knowledge because as an individual investor I
It is important that the pending increased regulation of "complex products" is not passed or put into place by FINRA.
Products deemed as such as used by investors such as myself after careful study, constitute a very small portion of my or my family office's net worth/liquidity, but present a vital tool in risk managment and/or achieving more beta in certain investing
I am writing to oppose any further regulation on leveraged and inverse investment products. Individual investors like myself have access to prospectus documents, we can read how the product operates, and we know that all investments in the stock and bond markets come with risks. Who is clamoring for this regulation, besides regulators? You might prevent 1% of investors from making a mistake, but
I want to have freedom to choose my investments, there is disclosure of risk already before any "risky" asset can be purchased.
I do NOT support further requirements to trade these securities, I should be the one making decisions about risk I am willing to take.
Leveraged and inverse funds play significant role in my trading strategy and investment strategy and can not be
