The 2020 TRACE Fact Book and fourth-quarter data tables are now available. The tables include aggregated information for securitized products as well as corporate and agency debt securities, including trades reported, the top 50 issues by trades and by par value, the average daily par value traded, customer buy vs. customer sell ratios and more.
View the 2020 TRACE Fact Book and 4Q 2020 tables
The FINRA Institute CRCP Scholarship Program provides small firms-those with less than 150 registered representatives-with a financial grant covering full tuition for the entire program, including room and board for the residential courses at Wharton.
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The purpose of this Election Notice is to notify members of an upcoming election to fill one small firm seat on the National Adjudicatory Council (NAC). Eligible individuals who obtain the requisite number of valid petitions may be included as candidates on the ballot by following the petition procedures described in this Election Notice.
A formal notice of the NAC election and ballot
Comments: The idea that leveraged products are more complex than the operations of other fund types seems absurd. Investments of any sort require an understanding of the operations of the fund and this is in no way limited to leveraged and inverse products.
Individuals choosing to invest need to be able to decide which investments are right for themselves and their family. Undue restrictions to
Board Appoints Industry Governors, Discusses FINRA’s Long-Term Financial Planning and Hears Latest From Key Stakeholders
Raising the difficulty of market manipulation via naked shorting and rapid trading has become a national mandate since the Robin Hood event. Market transparency is essential to free markets and the moves of institutional investors are bellwethers to retail investors who are harmed by market downturns without equal access to information on market moves. A balance must be struck between the need to
All short positions, FTD's, short interest, dark pool prices and Naked short positions -- must be available, public information -- immediately for all -- at all times... all information about everything must be available immediately for everyone. I mean, come on, this is obvious for a fair playing field. Hedge funds are getting away with crime after crime. the playing field must be equalized
It is in the best interest of all participants invested in the stock market to have potentially influential information when making important, calculated, and delicate financial decisions. With additions made to FINRA's short sale reporting program, specifically the procedures as instructed by Rule 4560, a gob of data can capture the eyes of all investors to help make better informed
Beginning August 3, 2020, members are required to begin to report transactions in U.S. Treasury Securities executed to hedge a List or Fixed Offering Price Transaction or a Takedown Transaction (as defined in FINRA Rule 6710) with an appropriate identifier. See additional information regarding this change in Regulatory Notice 19-30.
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From Monday, June 1, 2020, through Friday,
TO: NASD Members Participating in Sales of Direct Participation Program Securities
The National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. is circulating the attached questionnaire to members which participate in sales of direct participation programs in order to ascertain the level of interest in a communications service that would disseminate information about DPPs to members and sponsors. This