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The National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD®) is issuing this Notice to Members as part of its continuing effort to provide members with guidance on complying with rules that govern their business
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On September 18, 1990, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved an NASD proposal to require market makers in NASDAQ to display quotation size greater than or equal to the
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
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The Department of the Treasury has finalized amendments to the implementing regulations of the Bank Secrecy Act. Also known as the "Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970," these regulations govern the financial recordkeeping and reporting of currency and foreign transactions. The amendments, which
FINRA Establishes a New Effective Date for Reporting Asset-Backed Securities to TRACE and Related Rule Changes
During the productionization process of our machine learning patterns, we observed variations in our model predictions and probability score outputs when executed in Spark on a distributed cluster environment. This variation in model outputs occur when model type, hyperparameters, seed value and input data are held constant. After rigorous experimentations and analysis, we determined a method
Pursuant to FINRA Rule 6191(b)(4)(B), FINRA publishes aggregated Market Maker Profitability data on a monthly basis at no charge. FINRA does not identify the market makers that generated the data or the individual securities.
FINRA aggregates and publishes the following data categorized by Control Group and each Test Group:
market maker profitability statistics for market makers for which
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As of March 23, 1993, the following 55 issues joined the Nasdaq National Market,® bringing the total number of issues to 3,032:
Symbol
Company
Entry Date
SOES Execution Level
CMPO
Campo Electronics Appliances & Computers Inc.
2/24/93
1000
FSOU
First Southern Bancorp, Inc.
2/24/93
500
PENVF
Philip Environmental
Having testing standards for investments such as these is overreach to individual's rights to do as they see with their money. FINRA should consider doing EVERYTHING possible to make it easier for everyone TO invest, and not work to limit options or create testing strategies for participation. Ultimately - that provides less equality - and not more.
I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged. Additional regulation would only serve as an unfair restriction on the public in investing in public securities. I shouldn't have to go through any special process like passing a test before I can invest in public securities, like
