WASHINGTON – FINRA announced today that Michael Rufino will leave the organization at the end of this year after more than 32 years of dedicated service protecting investors and ensuring market integrity. Rufino most recently served as Head of Member Regulation (Sales Practice), where he guided and oversaw FINRA’s Sales Practice Examination, Risk Monitoring and Membership Application Programs in
The Neutral Corner - Volume 4—2022
Each registration category has a default base qualification exam. Starting in January 2023, if a registration category was obtained by a passing alternate qualification exam, a “Credit” for the default base exam(s) is added to the individual’s exam information in their CRD record. This information is viewable in their FINRA Gateway profile as well as the Qualifications area in FinPro.
 
The Neutral Corner—Volume 2, 2020
Mission Statement
FINRA Arbitrators Successfully Conduct Virtual Hearings (by Nora Sassounian, Case Administrator, FINRA West Regional Office)
Anatomy of a Zoom Videoconference Mediation (by E. Scott Douglas, FINRA Mediator)
FINRA Dispute Resolution Services and FINRA News
Name Change to FINRA Dispute Resolution Services
COVID-19 Hearing Postponements and
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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On February 15, 1994, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) asked the NASD to alert its members to a possible fraud involving cancelled General Motors Corporation common stock certificates. The certificates involved were issued prior to January 1, 1984.
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Last year, FINRA took several steps to engage with members regarding their current and planned activities relating to digital assets. These efforts included the issuance of Regulatory Notice 18-20, which encouraged firms to keep their Regulatory Coordinator informed if the firm, or its associated persons or affiliates, engaged, or intended to engage, in activities related to digital
(a) Each member shall promptly report to FINRA, but in any event not later than 30 calendar days, after the member knows or should have known of the existence of any of the following:
(1) the member or an associated person of the member:
(A) has been found to have violated any securities-, insurance-, commodities-, financial- or investment-related laws, rules, regulations or standards of conduct
Greetings to the person reading this message and thank you for the consideration. FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that perceptions of the integrity of the United States market is at great risk, in large part due to FINRA's outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and
Hello I want to suggest a new rule with all financial operations of any kind by any broker is instantly reported, it's 2021 after all - and that all these operations were transparent and public via your websites - with multiple layers of depth so that "new" retail investors like myself could understand the basics easily - and that it would be multiple levels of depth for the more
