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In mid-January, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a revised NASD Manual. To facilitate your adjustment to this new Manual, which is scheduled for publication and dissemination this May, we have included a Guide to the Manual: New-to-Old Conversion Chart and Old-to-New Conversion Chart. This material outlines the reorganized Manual and indicates where the
This month, we are marking the 10th anniversary of the FINRA Securities Helpline for Seniors—an important milestone for a critical service that FINRA provides to protect vulnerable investors and assist harmed investors. On this FINRA Unscripted podcast episode, we will be speaking with leaders from FINRA’s Vulnerable Adults and Seniors Team—Elizabeth Yoka, the manager of VAST Intake, and Michael Paskin, the manager of the VAST Investigations, to discuss the Helpline and its 10 years of protecting investors.
The Direct Market Access Controls section of the 2019 Report on Exam Findings informs member firms’ compliance programs by describing recent findings and observations from FINRA’s examinations, and, in certain cases, also providing a summary of effective practices.
FINRA has observed unusual price activity after the IPOs of certain small-cap issuers with operations outside the U.S. Regulators suspect some of these IPOs might have been manipulated in a ramp-and-dump scheme. If you’re solicited to invest in a newly issued small-cap stock, know the warning signs and take precautions.
SEC Approves Consolidated FINRA Rule Regarding Background Checks on Registration Applicants
On This PagePortfolio Margin DataFiling ScheduleHow to Access the File Upload FunctionBefore Uploading a File for the First TimeHow to Upload a FilePortfolio Margin Exam DataPortfolio Margin DataFINRA requires that all Portfolio Margin (PM) member firms submit their PM data via a file upload (fileX Upload).For more information on the expanded data requirements, please download version 2.0 of the
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October 21, 2002OATS recently added a Special Handling Code, "TS", for a Trailing Stop Order. For the purposes of OATS reporting, a Trailing Stop Order is defined as follows: In the case of a sell order, a Trailing Stop Order allows the stop price to increase by a predetermined amount or formula (e.g., a specified dollar amount, a percentage of the market price, or some other
