WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today announced that the annual CCOutreach BD National Seminar will be held on Feb. 8, 2011, at the SEC's Washington, D.C., headquarters.
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FINRA has established a new Supplemental Liquidity Schedule (SLS).1 The new SLS, which members subject to the requirement will need to file as a supplement to the FOCUS Report, is designed to improve FINRA’s ability to monitor for events that signal an adverse change in the liquidity risk of the members with the largest customer and counterparty exposures. FINRA is issuing this Notice to
WASHINGTON — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has named Gregory J. Dean, Jr. as its Senior Vice President for the Office of Government Affairs. Mr. Dean will start at FINRA on January 30.
Mr. Dean comes to FINRA from the Royal Bank of Canada where he is currently Senior Director, Regulatory & Government Affairs. Before joining RBC in 2015, he
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The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) is granting an exemption from the haircut treatment for written mortgage-backed options under Section 402.2a of the Treasury regulations implementing the Government Securities Act of 1986. Treasury consulted with
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is requesting comment on proposed amendments to Rule 15c3-1, the Net Capital Rule. The SEC proposes to create a new category of broker/dealer for affiliates conducting an OTC derivatives business that would have special capital,
Dear FINRA: I'm a long term buy & hold retail investor of leveraged exchange traded funds (ETFs.) I am a significant shareholder of ProShare's ETF "UPRO" at owning 0.01% of all outstanding shares, and of Direxion's "TMF" owning 0.07% of all outstanding shares. If you were to consider me an institution, I'd be rank #12 of ownership in terms of shares
Washington, D.C. - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has entered into final settlements with four additional firms to settle charges relating to the sale of Auction Rate Securities (ARS) that became illiquid when auctions froze in February 2008.
Washington, DC — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Fifth Third Securities, Inc., (FTS) of Cincinnati, OH, $1.75 million for a series of violations related to variable annuity sales and exchanges.
Second Annual Report Is the Latest Compliance Resource for Firms Resulting from FINRA360
WASHINGTON – FINRA today published its 2018 Report on FINRA Examination Findings, its second annual report detailing observations from recent exams of firms. The report is the latest resource FINRA makes available to firms as a result of its ongoing organizational improvement initiative, FINRA360.
The 2018
I was under the impression that government's financial regulations were put in place to protect the public. I trying don't understand who FINRA is protecting by creating these regulations because it's definitely not me, the average net worth financial investor/consumer. From what I've seen so far, these regs will only make it substantially more difficult on