Summary
FINRA has adopted amendments to Rule 2231 (Customer Account Statements) to add eight new supplementary materials pertaining to:
compliance with Rule 4311 (Carrying Agreements);
the transmission of customer account statements to other persons or entities;
the use of electronic media to satisfy delivery obligations;
compliance with Rule 3150 (Holding of Customer Mail);
the
Summary
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a rule change to amend FINRA Rule 5130 (Restrictions on the Purchase and Sale of Initial Equity Public Offerings) and FINRA Rule 5131 (New Issue Allocations and Distributions) to modify the rules to enhance regulatory consistency and address unintended operational impediments.1 These changes become effective on January 1,
Although I do believe 21-19 will be beneficial towards the progression of building a free and fair market structure, I do not have faith in FINRA's ability to self regulate the parties of Wall Street. By just acknowledging these problems, it does not solve them. Action must be taken. For years, these criminal enterprises have operated in tandem with the entities that regulate them, allowing
February 10, 2004NASD is publishing this article to provide guidance to member firms on supervisory responsibilities when using another entity to transmit OATS data on the firm's behalf. If a firm utilizes another member or non-member entity ("Reporting Agent") to record and transmit OATS data on its behalf, the member firm is still required to have written supervisory procedures
The 1 minute rule proposed would be very difficult for small broker dealers to keep, and would represent a major hurdle to our fixed income business. Most small broker dealers as is our case do not have a dedicate trading desk to handle this proposed new 1 minute rule, nor do they have the state of the art software that big firms may have access to. While compliance may be possible, this would
<p>Rebate of SEC Rule 12b-1 fees and commissions to non-member retirement plan and its participants will not violate NASD Rule 2420 if the SEC determines that the rebate recipients are not required to register as broker/dealers.</p>
Regarding the stocks $AMC and $GME: There must be more transparency about short positions. There should be no self reported data from any entity, there must be a third party overseer. The loop holes regarding short positions and failed to deliver shares (FTD’s) need to be closed. These positions should be made to be paid out and the idea that hedge funds can hide positions in OTM positions or
Every large institution, hedge fund or bank should have to report their short position(s) immediately and made public. The time is takes for market makers to cover failure to delivers on the thresh hold list needs to be reduced from 13 days to 5 days. All failure to delivers should be reported 3 days after a trading day. The penalty for creating synthetic shares should be the same as creating
The term "the Exchange," when used with reference to the administration of any rule, means the New York Stock Exchange LLC or the officer, employee, person, entity or committee to whom appropriate authority to administer such rule has been delegated by the Exchange.
Unless otherwise indicated in the rule, the terms Board, Board of Directors, Chairman, Chairman of the Board, Chief
October 4, 2000
OSO Administrators at NASD member OATS reporting firms are responsible for maintaining a list of contacts with whom OATS technical and regulatory staff can communicate concerning a variety of issues. The contact types required by OATS are:
Administrator—The primary contact for the OATS program.
Technical Support Contact—Assists the NASD in resolving OATS-related technical
