FINRA announced today that it has fined Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC $1.6 million for the firm’s repeated failures to timely close out failed inter-dealer municipal securities transactions and to take prompt steps to obtain physical possession or control of municipal security positions that are short more than 30 calendar days, and related supervisory failures.
FINRA provides dispute resolution services for several exchanges that are not able to staff or operate a dispute resolution program. These services include administration of the exchange's member-member, member-investor and member-employer securities-industry related disputes.
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In November 2017, FINRA launched a retrospective review of Rule 5250 (Payments for Market Making), which generally prohibits members from receiving payments for market making, 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 are appropriately designed to
The National Securities Exchanges and FINRA Issue Joint Guidance on Clock Synchronization and Certification Requirements Under the CAT NMS Plan
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The purpose of this Special Notice to Members is to inform
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The purpose of this Special Notice to Members is to inform members of the upcoming nomination and election process to fill
(a) Under the terms of the business arrangement establishing the FINRA/Nasdaq Trade Reporting Facility Carteret and the FINRA/Nasdaq Trade Reporting Facility Chicago, Nasdaq, Inc., as the Business Member, has a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free right and license to use covered market data, consistent with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. Nasdaq, Inc., as
Effective December 1, 2014, FINRA Rule 3170, Tape Recording of Registered Persons by Certain Firms, commonly referred to as the "Taping Rule," was adopted into the Consolidated FINRA Rulebook, replacing NASD Rule 3010(b)(2). The Taping Rule provisions first became effective August 17, 1998, when the Securities and Exchange Commission approved an amendment to NASD Rule 3010 to require members to establish, enforce and maintain special written supervisory procedures, including the tape recording of conversations, when they have hired more than a specified percentage of registered persons from certain firms that have been expelled or that have had their broker/dealer registrations revoked for violations of sales practice rules ("disciplined firms").
GUIDANCE
District Elections
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Operations
Registration
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Executive Summary
The purpose of this Special Notice to Members is to inform members of the upcoming nomination and election process to fill
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The Suggested Routing function is meant to aid the reader of this document. Each NASD member firm should consider the appropriate distribution in the context of its own organizational
