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.
Testing
From Monday, June 1, 2020, through Friday, July 31,
While requiring disclosure of additional information regarding complex financial products seems good in principle, it seems quite possible that this will be yet another textual agreement that almost nobody reads and most people click through. Figuring out who needs the information provided and how to present it in a way that they will understand it seems important.
However, requiring testing to
WASHINGTON – FINRA’s Board of Governors met on May 6 and 7 in New York City. During the meeting, the Board received updates on FINRA’s regulatory operations, including a status report on FINRA’s 529 plan self-reporting initiative and draft guidance around when Enforcement would grant firms credit for extraordinary cooperation during the enforcement process. That guidance will be published in a
Resources for Rules Concerning Brokers with a Significant History of Misconduct
Regulatory Notice 21-09
Mapping of Disclosure Categories for Rule 1017(a)(7)
Materiality Consultation Checklist for Rule 1017(a)(7)
FINRA Taping Rule (FINRA Rule 3170)
General Information on Statutory Disqualification and FINRA’s Eligibility Proceedings
Interim Plans of Heightened Supervision FAQs
Sample
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
I support this effort to improve the accuracy, requirements, and meaning behind the short interest metric. A more expansive reporting requirement that captures synthetic short positions would allow FINRA to be better able to understand market participants’ short sale-related activity. As synthetic short positions provide equivalent exposure, information on them may also provide investors and
(a) Designation of Ex-DateAll transactions in securities, except "cash" transactions, shall be "ex-dividend," "ex-rights" or "ex-warrants": (1) on the day specifically designated by the Committee after definitive information concerning the declaration and payment of a dividend or the issuance of rights or warrants has been received at the office of the
Executive Summary
The purpose of this Election Notice is to notify firms of the upcoming elections to fill vacancies on the FINRA Regional Committees, and the mailing of ballots to eligible firms.
As detailed below, the following seats are contested:
Midwest Region Committee, District 4 representative
Midwest Region Committee, District 8 representative
North Region Committee, District 9
Finra should absolutely adopt all of the above changes. Any regulation that can be added for transparency in a free market should be added. All of this information should be reported daily and available to everyone to install confidence in a free market system. Above and beyond this, accountability for failure to comply should come with harsher penalties then small fines that can be incurred as a
As previously announced, FINRA will enhance the aggregated reports and statistics for U.S. Treasury securities. The new implementation date for the enhancement is February 13, 2023. At that time the following enhancements will take place:
The weekly data reports will be replaced with daily and monthly reports. The last weekly report will be published on February 14, 2023, for the week ending
