The COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected firms’ day-to-day operations across the securities industry, including requiring firms to transition most or all their staff to remote work environments and implement remote supervisory practices. Firms adjusted their branch inspection programs to accommodate remote work requirements and travel restrictions. Join FINRA staff and industry panelists as they share how they implemented their remote branch inspection plan using zoom, electronic documentation review and other technological tools. Panelists also discuss written supervisory procedures, red flags, and how they prioritize inspections.
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To bring attention to a rising trend in the fraudulent transfer of customer accounts through the Automated Customer Account Transfer Service (ACATS), FINRA issued Regulatory Notice 22-21, which alerted member firms about how bad actors effect fraudulent transfers of customer assets using ACATS (referred to as ACATS fraud). That Notice listed several existing regulatory obligations that
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In April 2018, FINRA launched a retrospective review of the annual compliance meeting (ACM) requirement in Rule 3110(a)(7) and corresponding Supplementary Material .04 (SM .04), to assess its effectiveness and efficiency.1 The review is part of an ongoing initiative to periodically look back at a rule or set of rules to ensure they remain relevant and appropriately designed to achieve
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Abby Slonecker joined FINRA in early 2021 as Chief of Staff to Greg Ruppert and Senior Vice President of Member Supervision’s Office of Strategy and Program Risk (OSPR). In her role as Chief of Staff, she executes Greg’s strategic vision toward fulfilling FINRA’s mission and advises his Senior Leadership team. As SVP of OSPR, she oversees five teams that advise and support Member Supervision’s
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SEC Approves Rule to Address Conflicts of Interest Relating to the Publication and Distribution of Debt Research Reports
The Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance Program section of the 2017 Report on Exam Findings informs member firms’ compliance programs by describing recent findings and observations from FINRA’s examinations, and, in certain cases, also providing a summary of effective practices.
I am a private trader/investor. I have been using inverse and leveraged vehicles for many years in addition to more traditional vehicles. I have both made and lost a huge (for me) amount of money in them, but with time and trading experience I have been able to learn to trade them correctly greatly to my advantage. My issue with the proposed regulations is that the present regulatory attempts I
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Firms Fined, Individuals Sanctioned
George E. Dullnig and Co. (San Antonio, Texas) and George R. Dullnig (