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Each year, FINRA publishes its Annual Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter to highlight issues of importance to FINRA's regulatory programs.
Cover Letter From FINRA President and CEO, Robert Cook
January 8, 2018
As is our practice, we are marking the start of the new year by publishing our
I am disturbed and appalled to hear that FINRA is planning to prohibit my ability to invest in leveraged and inverse funds. I adamantly oppose to any regulator deciding how I should invest! I am angered by this arrogant and tyrannical effort to restrict how a consumer should invest his/her money. This is a clear and coordinated attack on the retail consumer to place the wealthy at a clear
How dare you even think about making it more difficult for the general public to save for retirement. That you lump inverse funds along with leveraged funds is particularly damaging; you want the general public to try shorting stocks, really? You think that's less difficult than buying an inverse fund? Inverse ETFs are extremely important to my own trading, and have saved me more than
To whom it may concern,
Please do NOT restrict access to public investments to only your preferred group of wealthy individuals. As a non-accredited retail investor it is incredibly frustrating to be denied access to the same investments that other people have access to simply because my portfolio isn't large enough. The proposed regulations only serve to prohibit retail investors such
Comments: I do believe having transparency is important. Regulators have done great things in the past to clarify concepts that a layman does not interact with regularly. Thanks to regulators, banks have to disclose APR's with clients, ensuring that the risks are fully understood. However, I feel that this level of scrutiny is unwarranted, biased, exclusionary, and has an unfair impact
FINRA Reminds Firms of Their Obligations When Reporting Large Options Positions
Publication Date: February 23, 2023
Interpretations are marked in blue background beneath the rule text to which they relate.
15c3-3b Exhibit B - Formula for determination of security-based swap customer reserve requirements of brokers and dealers under § 240.15c3-3.
Credits
Debits
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Free credit balances
INFORMATIONAL
Margin Disclosure and Day-Trading Risk Disclosure Statements
Effective Date: July 1, 2002
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Registration
Senior Management
Day-Trading Risk Disclosure
FINRA Rule 4111(b) requires the Department of Member Supervision (Department) to calculate annually a member firm’s "Preliminary Identification Metrics" to determine whether the firm meets the "Preliminary Criteria for Identification."1 A key driver of that is whether a member firm’s Preliminary Identification Metrics meet quantitative, risk-based "Preliminary
GUIDANCE
Options Position and Exercise Limits
Effective Date: February 28, 2005
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Institutional
Legal & Compliance
Options
Senior Management
Trading
Training
Delta Hedging
Exercise Limits
Hedge Exemption
