TO: All NASD Members
ATTN: Operations Officer, Cashier, Fail-Control Department
On Wednesday, June 22, 1983, the United States District Court for the Central District of California appointed a SIPC Trustee for the above-captioned firm. Previously, a temporary receiver had been appointed for the firm on June 21, 1983.
Members may use the "immediate close-out" procedures as provided in
GUIDANCE
Corporate Debt Securities
SUGGESTED ROUTING
KEY TOPICS
Corporate Finance
Legal and Compliance
Operations
Senior Management
Technology
Trading and Market Making
Training
Credit Default Swaps
Debt Securities
Operations
Options
Rule 6200 Series
TRACE Rules
Transaction Reporting
Executive Summary
NASD provides interpretive guidance under Rule 6230 on the
obligation of
Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE)
Background
On December 20, 2019, the SEC approved an amendment to FINRA Rule 6750 to permit the publication of weekly aggregated transaction information and statistics on U.S. Treasury Securities. Starting Tuesday March 10, the new TRACE data aggregates will be published on FINRA’s website (www.finra.org).
Aggregated Reports
The
TO: All NASD Members and Other Interested Persons
On January 20, 1986, the NASD issued Notice to Members 86-4, announcing the Securities and Exchange Commission's approval of new Article III, Section 41 of the NASD Rules of Fair Practice. The new rule requires all NASD members to maintain a record of their total "short" positions in NASDAQ securities in all customer and
Pursuant to FINRA Rule 6191(b)(4)(B), FINRA publishes aggregated Market Maker Profitability data on a monthly basis at no charge. FINRA does not identify the market makers that generated the data or the individual securities.
FINRA aggregates and publishes the following data categorized by Control Group and each Test Group:
market maker profitability statistics for market makers for
July 1999
Year 2000: Will Your Firm Be Compliant?
Recognizing the importance of ensuring the Year 2000 readiness of the securities industry, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken key steps to encourage active compliance efforts by broker/dealers. The first of these actions required broker/dealers to submit two Form BD-Y2K progress reports under Rule 17a-5 of the Securities and
Every day, FINRA's Insider Trading Detection Program uses sophisticated technology and analytics to monitor 100% of trading in stocks, options and bonds for potentially suspicious activity around material news events, resulting in hundreds of referrals to the SEC and law enforcement every year. On this episode, we hear how the team connects trading data, information from public sources and from companies and FINRA firms to pull together actionable intelligence.
When Regulation NMS was adopted, the SEC and market observers did not recognize ex-clearing as a significant loophole. In the original crafting of Regulation SHO (implemented in 2005), the industry told the SEC that ex-cleared trades were "rare". As such ex-cleared trades were exempt from much of the short selling regulations. Dark pool trades (ATS and OTC) in 2021 now make up a
Testimony Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
February 2020
Trading & Financial Compliance Examinations (“TFCE”) of the Market Regulation Department (“Market Regulation”) at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is conducting a review of [FIRM] concerning the Firm’s decision not to charge commissions for customer transactions, the impact that not charging commissions has or will have on the Firm’s
