Proposed Rule Change Relating to FINRA’s Trading Activity Fee Rate for Transactions in Covered Equity Securities
The sale of a call option and purchase of a put option with the same expiration date and strike price provides equivalent exposure to the price of a stock as a short sale. Despite this equivalence, this synthetic position does not currently create a short position that would be reportable under the current version of Rule 4560. The extent of use of this and other types of synthetic short
Sec. 5. The chairman of the meeting shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation or his or her designee. The date and time of the opening and closing of the polls for each matter upon which the members will vote at a meeting shall be announced at the meeting by the chairman of the meeting. The Board may adopt by resolution such rules and regulations for the conduct of the
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(a) In accordance with Rule 1004 of SEC Regulation SCI, FINRA will designate members that will be required to participate in FINRA's periodic, scheduled testing of its business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) plan. FINRA will do so according to established criteria that are designed to ensure participation by those members that FINRA reasonably determines are, taken as a whole,
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All fines and other monetary sanctions shall be paid to the Treasurer of FINRA and shall be used for the general corporate purposes.
(b) Summary Suspension or Expulsion
After seven days notice in writing, FINRA may summarily suspend or expel from membership a member that fails to:
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Last Voting Date: August 29, 1994
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Executive Summary
The NASD invites members to vote on proposed amendments to the NASD By-Laws to prepare for a planned new numbering scheme for the NASD Manual; to correct certain minor errors found in the By-Laws; and to provide for Board approval of future spelling and numbering changes. The
Bond market pricing is far more opaque than it should be. This rule change is a good step in the right direction. But, I assume there are market participants who benefit from this opacity, and would rather keep things as they are.
In order to achieve a true “ free market” system, retail traders must be provided with total transparency. There are seemingly endless ways for institutions and hedge funds to have the advantage, whether it be access to data, rule loopholes, or seemingly smoke and mirror processes. SSR is a total fabrication, as there are countless ways to achieve shorting while the ruling is in place. It is
The Series 27 exam — the Financial and Operations Principal Qualification Exam (FN) — assesses the competency of an entry-level principal to perform their job as a financial and operations principal.
