Retail investors are losing faith in the market. I urge you to take action to regularly disclose all short positions, whether genuine or synthetic (through married options, for example) on a weekly basis. This will allow individual investors to make more informed decisions about which companies they should invest their money in and will resolve the question of whether bad actors are using illegal
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today announced that it has fined J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc. $500,000 for failing to disclose to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) that it had used consultants to obtain numerous municipal securities offerings and had made payments to consultants connected to particular offerings. FINRA is responsible for enforcing MSRB rules.
Washington, DC — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today published guidance to firms on a new rule covering transactions in deferred variable annuities. FINRA Regulatory Notice 07-53 outlines the provisions of Rule 2821, which will become effective on May 5, 2008.
Deferred variable annuities are hybrid investments containing both securities and insurance features.
Washington, D.C. — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. $1 million for submitting mutual fund breakpoint data to FINRA that the firm knew to be inaccurate, as well as for related supervisory deficiencies. FINRA also ordered the firm to engage an independent consultant to evaluate its policies, systems and
Washington, D.C. — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today announced the results of elections to fill seven industry seats on its 23-member Board of Governors. The elections were conducted at FINRA's first-ever Annual Meeting on October 26. The newly elected Governors will serve three-year terms.FINRA is the non-governmental self-regulatory agency formed in July by
On November 15, 2021, the FINRA equity trade reporting facilities (the Alternative Display Facility, the FINRA/Nasdaq Trade Reporting Facilities and the FINRA/NYSE Trade Reporting Facility, through which member firms report OTC transactions in NMS stocks to FINRA1) will begin supporting timestamps up to nanosecond (HH:MM:SS.sssssssss) granularity in accordance with amendments to FINRA’s equity
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FINRA requests comment on a proposed change to its current policy relating to the assignment of OTC symbols to unlisted equity securities. Specifically, FINRA is considering whether it should begin assigning OTC symbols to unlisted equity securities that do not have a valid CUSIP identifier, in the limited circumstance where a member firm demonstrates its best efforts to obtain a CUSIP
WASHINGTON—FINRA announced today that it has fined Barclays Capital Inc. (Barclays Capital) $2 million for failing to comply with its best execution obligations in connection with its customers’ electronic equity orders.
From January 2014 through February 2019, Barclays Capital owned and operated an alternative trading system known as LX. Barclays Capital routed all its customers’ marketable
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FINRA is conducting a retrospective review to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of its rules and administrative processes that help protect senior investors from financial exploitation. The protection of senior investors is a top priority for FINRA. As such, FINRA is interested in whether additional tools, guidance or changes to FINRA rules or administrative processes are
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The NASD requests comment on proposed amendments to Article IV, Section 3 of
