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The FINRA Manual keeps investment professionals up to date on all our official regulations. It outlines FINRA’s unique rules and guidelines, as well as our current corporate organization. It consists of two main components:
Our Rules
FINRA’s rules and guidelines ensure a safe and fair market. These rules are constantly changing to adapt to new developments in the industry.
Our Corporate
FINRA publishes Notices to provide firms with timely information on a variety of issues. To obtain a Notice published prior to 1995, please contact FINRA MediaSource at (240) 386-4200.
FINRA may, upon notice, terminate access to the trade reporting service of the System as to a Participant in the event that a Participant fails to abide by any of the rules or operating procedures of the trade reporting service of the System or FINRA, or fails to honor contractual agreements entered into with FINRA or FINRA Regulation or the Participant Application Agreement, or fails to pay
Failure of a Participant or person associated with a Participant to comply with any of the rules or requirements of the System may be considered conduct inconsistent with high standards of commercial honor and just and equitable principles of trade, in violation of Rule 2010.
Renumbered from Rule 7270C by SR-FINRA-2008-066 eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2008
The data elements specified in Rule 7230B(d) are critical to FINRA's compilation of a transaction audit trail for regulatory purposes. As such, all member firms utilizing the trade reporting service of the System have an ongoing obligation to input 7230B(d) information accurately and completely.
Renumbered from Rule 7260C and amended by SR-FINRA-2008-066 eff. Jan. 1, 2009
If a Participant is reported by the System as a party to a trade that has been treated as locked-in and sent to DTCC, notwithstanding any other agreement to the contrary, that party shall be obligated to act as a principal to the trade and shall honor such trade on the scheduled settlement date.
Renumbered from Rule 7250C by SR-FINRA-2008-066 eff. Jan. 1, 2009.
(a) All trades submitted to the System must be locked-in trades prior to entry into the System.
(b) T+N Trade Processing
T+N (or "as/of") entries may be submitted until 8:00 p.m. each business day. “As/of” reports of trades executed on non-business days and T+365 or greater trades will not be submitted to clearing by the System.
