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These are much needed changes. More transparency will better protect and inform the retail investor.
Board Approves Rulemaking Items and Annual Financial Report; Appoints New Members to Advisory Committees
WASHINGTON—FINRA’s Board of Governors held its second meeting of the year on May 11-12 in Fort Lauderdale, FL—near the organization’s Boca Raton office, the home of FINRA’s Securities Helpline for Seniors. The Board approved three rulemaking items and took action on three items related to
Washington, DC - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is proposing a major expansion of its BrokerCheck service - to make records of final regulatory actions against brokers permanently available to the public, regardless of whether they continue to be employed in the securities industry. Under current rules, a broker's record generally becomes unavailable to the public two years after he or she leaves the securities industry and is therefore no longer under FINRA's jurisdiction.
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FINRA has received an increasing number of reports regarding customer account takeover (ATO) incidents, which involve bad actors using compromised customer information, such as login credentials (i.e., username and password), to gain unauthorized entry to customers’ online brokerage accounts.
To help firms prevent, detect and respond to such attacks, FINRA recently organized roundtable
(a) The Director will not serve any claim that is deficient. The reasons a claim may be deficient include the following:
(1) A Submission Agreement was not filed by each claimant;
(2) The Submission Agreement was not properly signed and dated;
(3) The Submission Agreement does not name all parties named in the claim;
(4) The claim does not specify the claimant's or the claimant's
Thank you for the opportunity to appear today to discuss the important work that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, is doing to fulfill our mission under the federal securities laws to protect investors and safeguard market integrity while facilitating vibrant capital markets.
Washington, DC — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Investor Education Foundation and the American Library Association (ALA) today announced 13 grants, totaling more than $853,000, to public libraries and library networks across the country, giving millions of library patrons and their families greater access to unbiased investing information and resources.The grants are awarded
FINRA Requests Comment on a Revised Proposal to Require a Hyperlink to BrokerCheck in Online Retail Communications With the Public
Washington, DC—A new national survey shows American investors have significant and widespread anxiety about the security of their investments, particularly as it relates to their retirement savings. More investors report that they are anxious about losing money on their investments (78 percent) and saving for retirement (73 percent) than are anxious about losing their job (50 percent), buying a
It is unfair to take away these investment products from retail investors and traders while the institutions enjoy the access to plethora of information and sophisticated tools and algorithms to profit from the market.