<p>FINRA Rule 2210 - Communications with the Public</p>
FINRA is reviewing transactions with retail customers of certain fixed income products known as “Gas Bonds.”
Summary
FINRA is alerting firms to a recently identified vulnerability in Apache Log4J software, which is an open-source, Java-based logging utility widely used by enterprise applications and cloud services. The “Log4Shell” vulnerability presents risk for member firms because they may be using this software in internal applications, or the software may be embedded in third-party software
IMPORTANT MAIL VOTE
OFFICERS, PARTNERS, PROPRIETORS
TO: All NASD Members
LAST VOTING DATE IS JULY 1, 1988.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
NASD members are invited to vote on a proposed amendment to Article III, Section 21 of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice. The amendment would require the marking of customer order tickets to reflect the dealers contacted by members and the quotations received to determine
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Rule 2210 (Communications with the Public)
Rule 2211 (Institutional Sales Material and Correspondence)
Rule 3010 (Supervision) Supervision
Current rules/regulations that are in place to monitor/report short selling and positions associated with short selling are entirely inadequate. Rules in place that allow for many loop-holes including short exempt, married calls/puts and dark pool activity + high frequency trading leaves currently regulations looking like swiss-cheese. Abuse from market makers and hedgefunds that are paid in gold
FINRA Resources
Senior Investors Topic Page
FINRA Securities Helpline for Seniors
Regulatory Notice 19-36 (FINRA Requests Comment on a Proposed Rule to Limit a Registered Person from Being Named a Customer’s Beneficiary of Holding a Position of Trust for or on Behalf of Customer)
Regulatory Notice 19-27 (FINRA Requests Comment on Rules and Issues Relating to Senior Investors)
TO: All NASD Members and Level 2 and Level 3 Subscribers
The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved amendments to Schedule D of the Association's By-Laws with respect to the rules which permit the aggregation or "bunching" of orders in NASDAQ National Market System securities into a single transaction report.
Under the amendments, which are effective immediately, orders
Short selling has not gone beyond simply providing for market liquidity and has become a method to destroy shareholder value. New rules (or better enforcement) need to take place to prevent this from continuing. Start by forcing all brokers to default their clients' positions to "not lend." This will restrict the available shares. Additionally, mandate that all short positions
