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While the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation regulates a variety of financial services, products, and professionals, the California Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) licenses or certifies more than 2.4 million practitioners across more than 255 professions (those outside DFPI jurisdiction). Both the DFPI and DCA seek to ...
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) Syria: Central Bank of Syria ; Syrian Commission on Financial Markets and Securities (SCFMS) ; Syrian Insurance Supervisory Commission: Taiwan: Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Tanzania: Capital Markets and Securities Authority (CMSA) ; Tanzania Insurance Regulatory Authority (TIRA ...
The California Department of Insurance (CDI), established in 1868, is the agency charged with overseeing insurance regulations, enforcing statutes mandating consumer protections, educating consumers, and fostering the stability of insurance markets in California.
The term ‘financial planner' can apply to a broad range of professionals, including accountants, insurance agents and investment advisors. If you work in any of those capacities or a related ...
Regulation P governs the use of a customer's private data. Banks and other financial institutions must inform a consumer of their policy regarding personal information, and must provide an "opt-out" before disclosing data to a non-affiliated third party. [4] The regulation was enacted in 1999.
Financial regulation is a broad set of policies that apply to the financial sector in most jurisdictions, justified by two main features of finance: systemic risk, which implies that the failure of financial firms involves public interest considerations; and information asymmetry, which justifies curbs on freedom of contract in selected areas of financial services, particularly those that ...
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is a private American corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization (SRO) that regulates member brokerage firms and exchange markets. FINRA is the successor to the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. ( NASD ) as well as to the member regulation, enforcement, and ...
After the Pecora Commission hearings on abuses and frauds in securities markets, Congress passed the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. § 77a), which federally regulates original issues of securities across state lines, primarily by requiring that issuing companies register distributions prior to sale so that investors may access basic ...