(a) Supervisory SystemEach member shall establish and maintain a system to supervise the activities of each associated person that is reasonably designed to achieve compliance with applicable securities laws and regulations, and with applicable FINRA rules. Final responsibility for proper supervision shall rest with the member. A member's supervisory system shall provide, at a minimum, for
To support their investor protection missions, FINRA and state securities regulators jointly collect and publicly disclose extensive registration information about financial professionals associated with broker-dealer firms (referred to herein as FINRA-registered financial professionals or RFPs). This registration information, which includes information about customer complaints, is used by regulators to license and oversee RFPs. The information publicly disclosed about RFPs is far more comprehensive than what is published for most other types of professionals.
(a) Each member shall be required to file with FINRA, or otherwise submit to FINRA, in such electronic format as FINRA may require, all regulatory notices or other documents required to be filed or otherwise submitted to FINRA, as specified by FINRA.
(b) Each member must identify, review and, if necessary, update its executive representative designation and contact information as required
A member who in the capacity of paying agent, transfer agent, trustee, or in any other similar capacity, has received information as to the ownership of securities, shall under no circumstances make use of such information for the purpose of soliciting purchases, sales or exchanges except at the request and on behalf of the issuer.
Cross Reference–Rule 2150. Improper Use of Customers'
No member or person associated with a member shall file with FINRA information with respect to membership or registration which is incomplete or inaccurate so as to be misleading, or which could in any way tend to mislead, or fail to correct such filing after notice thereof.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2009-009 eff. Aug. 17, 2009.Selected Notice: 09-33.
All capital acquisition brokers are subject to FINRA Rule 1122.
Adopted by SR-FINRA-2015-054 eff. April 14, 2017.Selected Notice: 16-37.
All capital acquisition brokers are subject to FINRA Rule 4517.
Adopted by SR-FINRA-2015-054 eff. April 14, 2017.Selected Notice: 16-37.
Most transfers of customer accounts from one brokerage firm (the "carrying firm") to another (the "receiving firm") occur through the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service (ACATS), an electronic transfer system developed by the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) to automate and standardize the transfer of accounts. When it is not possible to use ACATS,
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As the year 2000 approaches, organizations throughout the world are facing the formidable challenge of ensuring that their own computer systems, and other computer systems they depend upon, will continue to operate successfully when processing data/