INFORMATIONAL
Continuing Education
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KEY TOPICS
Continuing Education
Legal & Compliance
Registration Department
Senior Management
Regulatory Element
General Program (S101)
Series 6 Program (S106)
Executive Summary
NASD Rule 1120 (Continuing Education Requirements) permits the NASD, as appropriate, to designate specific Continuing Education Regulatory Element
Thank you for that kind introduction, Dean Johnson. I am afraid that the Road Ahead in Regulation may have changed in just the time we have been sitting here.
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and other exchange-traded products (ETPs) combine aspects of mutual funds and conventional stocks. As with any investment, ETPs can expose investors to any number of risks, so understanding the products and how they work is important.
January 2008
FINRA is conducting a review of the policies, procedures and controls with respect to information barriers. To facilitate this review, FINRA requests a copy of the following information and/or documentation:
Organizational charts for the firm's investment banking department (or equivalent department, i.e. financial advisory department) and compliance department.
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FINRA Reminds Firms of Their Sales Practice Obligations with Regard to Cash Alternatives
FINRA announced today the results of its election of two Governors to its Board of Governors. The announcement came after the Annual Meeting of FINRA firms, where Scott A. Curtis, president of Raymond James’s Private Client Group, was elected as a Large-Firm Governor, and Wendy Lanton, Chief Compliance Officer and Founding Principal of Herald & Lantern Investments, Inc., was re-elected as a Small-Firm Governor.
FINRA’s Research and Development (R&D) program is an innovation engine for FINRA - a sandbox for staff to take risks, explore new and disruptive technologies, assess potential usefulness to FINRA use cases, as well as investigate and test solutions to known problems.
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Senior Management
Internal Audit
Legal & Compliance
Municipal
Training
Executive Summary
Under SEC approved procedures, NASD Regulation, Inc. (NASD RegulationSM) reviews member requests for exemption from the two-year prohibition of municipal securities underwriting business contained in Rule G-37 (Rule) of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB). Recently
Recently, FINRA's Market Regulation and Transparency Services (MRTS) team realigned its structure around specific functions, rather than around specific rules or products. On this episode, we hear from three of the group's senior leaders to learn how the change allows MRTS to be more nimble in addressing and anticipating risks, to better leverage its data and more.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to adopt new Supplementary Material .19 (Residential Supervisory Location) under FINRA Rule 3110 (Supervision) that would align FINRA’s definition of an office of supervisory jurisdiction (“OSJ”) and the classification of a location that