Chairman Dodd, Ranking Member Shelby and Members of the Committee: I am Richard Ketchum, Chairman and CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA. On behalf of FINRA, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to testify today.
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I would like to discuss with you today the important question of the appropriate standard of care for brokers and dealers or, more directly, whether the time has come to require broker-dealers, when recommending a security or strategy to retail investors, to ensure that the recommendation is in the “best interest” of the investor.
A “best interest” or “fiduciary”
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Testimony of Chairman and CEO, Richard Ketchum, Before the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Committee on Financial Services
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