• Customer Confirmations—Failure to Comply With Rule Requirements
• Customer Protection Rule—Failure to Comply With Rule Requirements
• Net Capital Violations
• Recordkeeping Violations
• Regulation T and Margin Requirements—Violations of Regulation T and/or FINRA Margin
• Corporate Financing Rule—Failure to Comply With Rule Requirements
• Engaging in Prohibited Municipal Securities Business
• Escrow Violations—Prohibited Representations in Contingency Offerings; Transmission or Maintenance of Customer Funds in Underwritings
• Restrictions on the Purchase and Sale of
• Arbitration Award—Failure to Honor or Failure to Honor in a Timely Manner
Arbitration Award—Failure to Honor or Failure to Honor in a Timely Manner
FINRA Rules 2010 and 103301
Principal Considerations in Determining Sanctions
Monetary Sanction
Suspension, Bar or Other Sanctions
See Principal
• Outside Business Activities—Failure to Comply With Rule Requirements
• Selling Away (Private Securities Transactions)
• Transactions for or by Associated Persons—Failure to Comply With Rule Requirements
Outside Business Activities—Failure to Comply With Rule Requirements
FINRA Rules 2010 and 3270
Principal Considerations in
Calculation of days of suspension. When imposing suspensions, Adjudicators should consult the suspension range listed in the specific guideline applicable to the violation to determine whether the length of the suspension should be measured in business days or calendar days. When imposing a suspension that is measured in days, Adjudicators should specify business or calendar days.
Censures
These guidelines supersede prior editions of the FINRA Sanction Guidelines, whether published in a booklet or discussed in FINRA Regulatory Notices (formerly NASD Notices to Members). These guidelines are effective as of the date of publication, and apply to all disciplinary matters, including pending matters. FINRA may, from time to time, amend these guidelines and announce the amendments in
The following list of factors should be considered in conjunction with the imposition of sanctions with respect to all violations. Individual guidelines may list additional violation-specific factors.
Although many of the general and violation-specific considerations, when they apply in the case at hand, have the potential to be either aggravating or mitigating, some considerations have
1. Disciplinary sanctions should be designed to protect the investing public by deterring misconduct and upholding high standards of business conduct.
The purpose of FINRA's disciplinary process is to protect the investing public, support and improve the overall business standards in the securities industry, and decrease the likelihood of recurrence of misconduct by the disciplined
The regulatory mission of FINRA is to protect investors and strengthen market integrity through vigorous, even-handed and cost-effective self-regulation. FINRA embraces self-regulation as the most effective means of infusing a balance of industry and non-industry expertise into the regulatory process. FINRA believes that an important facet of its regulatory function is the building of public
