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The purpose of this Election Notice is to notify members of an upcoming election to fill two large firm seats and one small firm seat on the National Adjudicatory Council (NAC), and to announce the FINRA Nominating & Governance Committee (Nominating Committee) nominees for these vacancies. Eligible individuals not nominated by the Nominating Committee who obtain the requisite
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FINRA has released an updated Security Futures Risk Disclosure Statement (2020 Statement) to replace the one that was last updated in 2018, and a supplement (2020 Supplement) that reflects the disclosure updates described herein.1 The 2020 Statement incorporates all cumulative changes made to date, which include, among others, conforming changes for updates to the market-wide circuit
The Long Term Stock Exchange (“LTSE”) is providing a testing opportunity this weekend in preparation for their future launch. Firms participating in the August 15, 2020 test may send OATS data related to those orders to the OATS Certification Testing environment before the following Monday's OATS reporting deadline. OATS will then attempt to match to LTSE test data. Matching
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FINRA requests comment on the practice of internalizing customer trades in the corporate bond market after obtaining auction responses, commonly known as “pennying.” In particular, pennying involves a dealer, after receiving a customer order, initiating a bid or offer wanted auction process on behalf of a customer, reviewing the auction responses, and then executing the customer order
FINRA is warning member firms of a new imposter website www.finnra.org (please notice the extra “n” in the domain name).
One portion of the website contains a link to a registration site that is not legitimate (see images, below).
In addition, it is possible bad actors could leverage the domain to send fake emails including those with imbedded phishing links or attachments containing malware.
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
Members Exchange (“MEMX”) is providing a testing opportunity this weekend in preparation for their September launch. Firms participating in the August 15, 2020 test may send OATS data related to those orders to the OATS Certification Testing environment before the following Monday's OATS reporting deadline. OATS will then attempt to match to the MEMX test data. Matching statistics
The latest edition of the OATS Reporting Technical Specifications dated July 31, 2020 is now available.
This edition includes updates related to:
The delayed onboarding of the Long-Term Stock Exchange for Exchange Route Matching. Specifically, the Market Center ID related to the LTSE was revised to “XL”, a change from what was specified in the previous Technical
