Firms could be vulnerable to a newly discovered social engineering scheme in which bad actors trick customer support personnel into downloading and executing malware. This Alert describes the scheme and provides recommendations to help firms protect themselves from the threat.
FINRA Reminds Firms of Their Sales Practice and Due Diligence Obligations When Selling Municipal Securities in the Secondary Market
When reporting short interest can be skewed through a loophole, this needs to be addressed. When short sale restrictions are enacted as a safety for a volatile stock, but overridden through a mysterious, unregulated exchange: this needs to be addressed. When asset managing/ trading firms have access to order flow prior to retail investors, and can systematically alter a stocks natural and organic
I truly feel that this new regulation would severely damage any investor that is interested in securing his or her financial future.
Cryptocurrency is the one financial vehicle that is not only affordable to ANY investor regardless of the amount of wealth they may have but that can change an investors financial status overnight.
It is no more risky, than any stock an investor may buy or trade
So Investments are too complex for us "regular" people? Discrimination much? Investments are only for those with a high net worth? Discrimination much? It's 2022, the time where we all talk about discrimination and how we can fix it. Well with what's been coming out of lawmakers hands in 2022, has been fueling the discrimination fire. I started investing in 2021 when CoinBase
By Kara Williams and Gargi Sharma
FINRA’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) anticipates continuing our focus on Russia-related sanctions and evasion tactics, as well as other priority threats such as new account fraud, reporting of cyber-events and cyber-enabled fraud, market manipulation and trading-related frauds and Ponzi schemes. While SIU will focus our investigative resources on these
Individual investors should be permitted to trade leveraged and Reverse ETF. One does not need to have a large amount of capital to have intelligence and the ability to understand and use these investment vehicles. Special tests or other special requirements should not exist which would limit individual investors access to these vehicles. and, under no circumstances should access be cut at the
Comments: Dear FINRA, I have been investing in stocks and options for over 30 years and have used leveraged or inverse products for the last 20 years. The proposed regulations and or guardrails for what you call complex products would undoubtedly disrupt the existence of these products and future development of these products. L&I ETF's have given me the opportunity to
I know for sure that having specialized rules and red tape for complex leveraged and inverse products does not actually reduce the risk faced by retail investors. Access to leverage can even be used to reduce risk in an overall portfolio, as numerous other commenters have noticed. When implemented as part of a well planned strategy, leveraged and inverse products can provide crucial diversifying
As a retail investor, who has been actively trading in the last 2 years and these regulations are very much targeted at, I do not agree with the proposed rule/guidance changes. FINRA has already placed many barriers to retail investors in the form of PDT rules, $25k capital requirements, etc. At no point in my journey as a new trader have I felt that the restrictions benefitted me or protected me
