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Haimera Workie, Vice President and Head of Financial innovation, oversees the Office of Financial Innovation. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading FINRA’s Office of Financial Innovation, which focuses on analyzing financial technology (FinTech) innovations and emerging risks and trends related to the securities market. As part of these responsibilities, Mr. Workie works to foster an
Audria Pendergrass Lee is FINRA’s Vice President of Talent Acquisition and Chief Diversity Officer. In this role, she leads FINRA’s strategic diversity, equity and inclusion, and talent acquisition efforts.
Since joining FINRA in 2009, Ms. Pendergrass Lee has spearheaded the strategic deployment of resources that support FINRA's goal of fostering an attractive and inclusive workplace.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to amend Section 4 of Schedule A to the FINRA By-Laws to: (1) revise the fee for the Regulatory Element of continuing education (“CE”); (2) establish the fee for individuals who elect to maintain their qualification following the termination
The Neutral Corner—Volume 4, 2021
As a layman, I find the practice of share lending to be disappointing. Many people trust their brokers and relevant institutions to act in ways that aren't detrimental to their portfolio. Lending shares (even from ETFs) to satisfy the borrowing needs of short sellers? This needs to end. Retail's confidence in US capital markets has all but evaporated at this point. So really, things
Executive Summary
FINRA’s Renewal Program supports the collection and disbursement of fees related to the renewal of broker-dealer (BD) and investment adviser (IA) registrations, exempt reporting and notice filings with participating self-regulatory organizations (SRO) and jurisdictions. During this program, FINRA announces renewal fees owed by BD and IA firms via Preliminary Statements issued
As a retail investor that has garnered a profit over the years trading options as well as holding leveraged ETFs on and off and having gleaned through the wealth of information available to me about these products I don't believe there's any need for further regulation. Both options and leveraged ETFs should be trade-able by "non-sophisticated" retail investors at their own
The ways in which people communicate have changed with advancements in technology, and so have the tactics of “cold calling” boiler rooms. Today’s boiler rooms go beyond the telephone to contact potential investors, including pitching through messaging apps and social media. Regardless of the method of contact, the scammer’s goal and many of the red flags are the same.
During the productionization process of our machine learning patterns, we observed variations in our model predictions and probability score outputs when executed in Spark on a distributed cluster environment. This variation in model outputs occur when model type, hyperparameters, seed value and input data are held constant. After rigorous experimentations and analysis, we determined a method
How FINRA Assesses Performance of its Machine Learning Models
Data science has come a long way in the past 10 years. As machine learning projects become productionized, they look increasingly like software projects. Focus has shifted from presenting charts to integrating AI software into a production pipeline. There is still plenty of work in the former scenario, but the latter has become more