TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
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The NASD's Direct Participation Programs and Real Estate Committees have reviewed certain information received from members and their affiliates through the review process carried out by the NASD Corporate Financing Department. The Committees reviewed the costs associated with issuing and
During your first week at a new job, you typically focus on the basics – locating your office, setting up your computer and getting acquainted with new colleagues and acronyms. If you're Greg Ruppert, who joined FINRA on March 23, 2020 as the new Executive Vice President, National Fraud and Financial Crimes Detection Programs (NCFC), you mark your first week by establishing FINRA's
FINRA has been on a hiring spree, working to fill scores of open positions. But given that almost all employees are working remotely as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, how are these new hires getting the equipment to start work from home?The solution: “FINRA in a Box.”That’s what staff call the package FINRA sends to new hires, containing a laptop, onboarding instructions, introductory
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Executive Summary
On March 14, 1994, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved an amendment to Section 4 of the OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB®) rules that requires OTCBB market makers to indicate, by a fifth-character geographic indicator appended to their market-maker identifier (MMID), that the firm's trading desk for a
The Net Capital section of the 2022 Report on FINRA’s Risk Monitoring and Examination Activities (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) relevant regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) exam findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
In regards for comments on 21-19 regarding short positions, here are my thoughts. * Every share should be tracked with unique identifier and should have the ability to be marked as lent out, unassigned/free, owned-lendable, or owned-not-lendable and be registered with a single central database to prevent duplication/ falsification of data. The ability to mark a share as owned-not-lendable shall
Currently, FINRA API users wishing to get access for TRACE, ADF, ORF, and TRF Reference Data are required to download a digital certificate and present verified user id and password credentials to access the API. As part of its Transparency Services improvement initiatives, FINRA is introducing a new method for users to gain secure access to the API.FINRA will replace digital certificates with
(a) No member shall accept an order from a customer, including foreign customers and/or broker-dealers trading with or through the member, for eligible transactions of such customers that settle in the United States, pursuant to an arrangement whereby payment for securities purchased or delivery of securities sold is to be made to or by an agent of the customer unless all of the following
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved amendments to the Interpretation of the Board of Governors — Forwarding of Proxy and Other Materials, Article III, Section 1 of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice
New Series 51 Examination
