Outreach Follows Recent Efforts to Expand Opportunities for Participation
WASHINGTON – FINRA today issued Special Notice 3/31/22 to encourage securities industry professionals and non-industry stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to become involved in FINRA’s advisory committees.
“We welcome and encourage industry professionals and other stakeholders to join a FINRA advisory committee, provide
1. The most neglected field in investor education is equity market manipulation. New retail investors should be informed about perpetual option fail-to-delivers, married-puts, shorting via exchange-traded-funds, off-exchange trading and selling synthetic shares to manipulate a stock's price. 2. From a retail investor's perspective: An open forum where individual users can share investor
America is founded on the principal of education and independence. As an investor, I should be able to choose the public investments that are right for me and my family. Public investments should be available to all of the public, not just the privileged.
I should not have to go through any process or take a test before investing in any security. As long as we have regulations that financial
Washington, DC - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Scottrade, Inc. $200,000 for violating pattern day trading margin rules and for extending credit to customers in violation of federal securities laws and banking regulations.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it is seeking authority to significantly expand the amount of information available to the public on current and former securities brokers through its free online BrokerCheck service.
As announced in the April 28, 2020 notice, “Introduction to Transparency Services Initiatives and Webpage”, FINRA will be retiring the current FINRA New Issue Form and will be replacing it with an updated submission platform. The new platform will be available with the same log in credentials used to access the FINRA New Form today and is expected to go live on Monday, September 28, 2020
I wish that I could say how surprised I am that financial and/or governmental bodies are once again displaying bad behavior in terms of how they treat American retail investors, but Im not. The current practice of displaying a warning on risky financial instruments is QUITE sufficient. I can read, thank you VERY much. This has nothing to do with protecting individual investors from themselves and
Washington, DC - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Pacific Cornerstone Capital, Inc. of Irvine, CA, and its former chief executive officer, Terry Roussel, a total of $750,000 for failing to include full and accurate information in private placement offering documents and marketing material.
Email: [email protected] Subject: Regulatory Notice 22-08 05/08/2022 Please allow leveraged and inverse funds to continue. Public investments should be available to all of the public and should not be restricted to only certain groups or individuals. I have a hard time understanding why restrictions are being considered for leveraged and inverse ETFs such as index funds while high risk stocks
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It has come to my attention that FINRA is considering new restrictions on the ability of the public to invest in leveraged and inverse funds. I'm writing to express my opposition to restrictions which would significantly limit the public's access to and ability to use these important investment tools. In my own experience, leveraged and inverse funds are very useful
