I strongly oppose limiting access to public securities for the select few who pass unnecessary tests. The public is perfectly capable of reading and understanding a prospectus and the associated risks and making wise investment decisions for themselves and their families. The securities under consideration for additional regulation such as leveraged and inverse funds are a key strategy to my
Exemptive Letter to Christopher M. Wells, Proskauer Rose LLP
I write to oppose any rule or regulation that limits leveraged ETF positions to one day or access to leveraged ETFs. I am a retail investor that has done a lot of research on leveraged ETFs, am comfortable with the risk, and have invested a portion of my portfolio that I am comfortable with in leveraged products and plan to hold long term. If positions were limited to a single day, I would be
Beginning Monday, July 24, 2023, FINRA will increase the bandwidth rate for the Trade Data Dissemination Service 2.1 (TDDS 2.1) vendor feed from 2,500 kilobits per second (Kbps) to 3,000 kilobits per second (Kbps). FINRA will offer testing for the new bandwidth rate and will announce details for the test as the date approaches.
TDDS 2.1 subscribers are encouraged to plan to ensure their systems
The hackathon is designed to provide technology staff with foundational security knowledge as well as the opportunity to practice mitigating security risks like broken access control, cross-site scripting, security misconfigurations, injection attacks and more. The planning team works with a vendor to create three cyber ranges to practice security hacking at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.
FINRA is alerting consumers of its OTC Transparency Data to some recent changes related to the FINRA API platform.
OAuth2 Authentication:
In order to improve security, FINRA is transitioning to OAuth2 authentication. As such, the API platform will only support OAuth2 authentication starting June 1, 2022.
After May 31, 2022 the FINRA API platform will no longer support Basic
When used in the Capital Acquisition Broker Rules, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Associated person of a capital acquisition broker" or "person associated with a capital acquisition broker"
The term "associated person of a capital acquisition broker" or "person associated with a capital acquisition broker" means: (1) a natural person
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
During its March 6 and 7 meeting, the FINRA Board of Governors approved a rule proposal to lower the age at which parties qualify for accelerated arbitration processing and approved the allocation of prior-year fine monies.
Summary
FINRA requests comment on a proposal to facilitate centralized access to members’ order execution quality reports for NMS stocks that are required to be published by market centers under Rule 605 of Regulation NMS. Under the proposal, FINRA members would be required to provide their Rule 605 reports to FINRA, which FINRA would publish in a centralized location on the FINRA website.
