REQUEST FOR COMMENT
Proposed Amendments to Rule 2720
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Corporate Financing
Legal & Compliance
Senior Management
Trading & Market Making
Affiliate
Conflicts of Interest
Equity & Debt Offerings
Investment Banking
Qualified Independent Underwriter
Rule 2710
Rule 2720
Underwriting Compensation
Executive Summary
NASD is issuing
The availability of complex products and options can potentially expand the investment opportunities for retail investors and, if properly understood, offer favorable investment outcomes (e.g., enhancing returns, limiting losses or improving diversification). However, important regulatory concerns arise when investors trade complex products without understanding their unique characteristics and
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(a) A member shall, at or before the completion of any transaction in any security effected for or with an account of a customer, give or send to such customer written notification ("confirmation") in conformity with the requirements of SEA Rule 10b-10.
(b) A confirmation given or sent pursuant to this Rule shall further disclose:
(1) with respect to any transaction in any NMS stock,
Background
Advanced data analytics is a critical function within FINRA and an important component of our efforts to be a risk-based and data-driven organization.7 This work, which supports our examination, surveillance and enforcement functions among others, is conducted in a number of areas throughout FINRA, but primarily within Market Regulation Surveillance, Research, Methodology, and
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
For more than two centuries, the securities industry in the United States has been governed by private arrangements to regulate business conduct—membership organizations that set rules for their members, and then hold members accountable if they break the rules.The earliest such “self-regulatory organizations”—or SROs—date to the 1790s, when groups of traders in New York and Philadelphia agreed
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FINRA Requests Comment on Proposed Regulation of Crowdfunding Activities
The Private Placements topic of the 2024 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.