By Robert Cook, President and CEO, and Greg Ruppert, Executive Vice President, Member Supervision, FINRA. From 2021 to 2024, the SEC brought enforcement actions against numerous FINRA member firms for recordkeeping violations involving off-channel communications (OCCs) and settled them on substantially similar terms. In January 2025, the SEC brought additional OCC-related actions against other member firms but settled these on significantly less burdensome terms. A group of firms settling before 2025 petitioned the SEC to modify their settlements to align with the January firm settlements. The SEC recently denied this petition.
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On February 26, 1993, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved amendments to Schedule D that require members to append a fifth-character location indicator to their market-maker identification symbol (MMID) in securities that are traded at a location away from the primary
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The schedule of trade dates-settlement dates below reflects the observance by the financial community of Columbus Day, Monday, October 12, 1992. On this day, securities exchanges and The Nasdaq Stock Market™
COMMENTS ON 22-08 You have made this request for comments so complicated that it is hard to follow. I will just list my ideas and you can try to sort them out. On my trip from model airplanes to airline captain I have made many replies that affected new FARs. This a free country and everyone should be able to risk some $ and try to make more $. This should include hedge funds, but limited to a
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) and FINRA announced today that registration is now open for both in-person and virtual attendance of their Compliance Outreach Program for municipal market professionals. The event is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 20, and Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, in Denver, Colorado.
Following are FAQs about FINRA’s research conflicts of interest rules.
The FINRA Investor Education Foundation (FINRA Foundation) today awarded Doug Shadel, Ph.D., the 2023 Ketchum Prize—its highest honor—in recognition of his outstanding service and research on protecting consumers, particularly vulnerable Americans.
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Fast Account Switching allows individuals with multiple firm entitlement accounts to quickly switch between these accounts without re-entering their password. This Fast Account Switching capability saves time for the numerous individuals who work on behalf of more than one organization.
The FINRA Entitlement Program provides a secure way to access participating Web-based systems with a shared entitlement service. This service provides authorized users the ability to access these systems with a single FINRA User ID and Password. Currently, there are more than 20 FINRA applications available via this shared entitlement platform and more applications will be added in the future.
