May 1999
Internal Testing And Contingency Planning
Internal Testing
No matter the size of your firm—two people, 200, or 20,000-you should be mindful of potential Year 2000 challenges. Internal testing of all systems, especially those that are mission critical, should now be in progress or completed.
For example, stand-alone personal computers (PCs), networked systems, and related software
(a) Any Trade Reporting Facility Participant that is required to obtain, or otherwise wishes to use, more than one Market Participant Symbol ("MPID") for purposes of reporting trades to a Trade Reporting Facility must submit a written request, in the form required by FINRA, to, and obtain approval from, FINRA Market Operations for such additional MPID(s).
(b) A Trade Reporting
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), no member shall, directly or indirectly, give, permit to be given, or offer to give, anything of value to any person for the purpose of influencing or rewarding the action of such person in connection with the publication or circulation in any electronic or other public media, including any investment service or similar publication, Web site, newspaper
On August 26, 2020, FINRA President and CEO, Robert Cook, the head of FINRA’s Office of Investor Education, Gerri Walsh, and special guests U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and Nevada Securities Administrator Erin Houston came together online to discuss key considerations for investing in the age of COVID-19. They discussed how to avoid fraud and other scams, common investing pitfalls, and how state and federal regulators can be a resource for investors.
July 1999
Year 2000: Will Your Firm Be Compliant?
Recognizing the importance of ensuring the Year 2000 readiness of the securities industry, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken key steps to encourage active compliance efforts by broker/dealers. The first of these actions required broker/dealers to submit two Form BD-Y2K progress reports under Rule 17a-5 of the Securities and
There are nine categories of reports currently available on the Report Center:
Corporate Financing
Cross-Market Supervision
Disclosure
Equity
MSRB
Online Learning
Options
Risk Monitoring
TRACE
Unread Reports
The Unread Reports section contains a list of the most recent reports available to you that you have not yet viewed. The list of reports (displays only the most recent version of
The Communications with the Public section of the 2021 Report on FINRA’s Risk Monitoring and Examination Activities (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) relevant regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) exam findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
Beginning September 30, 2009, FINRA will publish on its Web site a Monthly Short Sale Transaction File to provide public access to certain transaction data, including transaction times, price, and number of shares for every short sale transaction in an NMS stock. FINRA also will begin publishing a Daily Short Sale Volume File in the fourth quarter of 2009, which will provide aggregate daily short
(a) No member shall open a margin account, as specified in Regulation T of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, for or on behalf of a non-institutional customer, unless, prior to or at the time of opening the account, the member has furnished to the customer, individually, in paper or electronic form, and in a separate document (or contained by itself on a separate page as part
