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The following is a list of the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), NASAA, and National Futures Association (NFA) financial securities examinations. Most FINRA examinations are divided into two categories: Registered Representative and Registered Principal levels. An asterisk designates that there is no sponsorship requirement ...
Electronic ticker monitor display, showing the bid and offer status of securities. Securities market participants in the United States include corporations and governments issuing securities, persons and corporations buying and selling a security, the broker-dealers and exchanges which facilitate such trading, banks which safe keep assets, and regulators who monitor the markets' activities.
Broker-dealers are at the heart of the securities and derivatives trading process. [1] Although many broker-dealers are "independent" firms solely involved in broker-dealer services, many others are business units or subsidiaries of commercial banks, investment banks or investment companies.
The Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC / ˈ s ɪ p ɪ k /) is a federally mandated, non-profit, member-funded, United States government corporation created under the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA) of 1970 [3] that mandates membership of most US-registered broker-dealers.
The NASD was founded on September 3, 1936 as Investment Bankers Conference, Inc. [9] and, on August 7, 1939, was registered under the name National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. [10] as a national securities association with the SEC under authority granted by the 1938 Maloney Act amendments to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, [11] which allowed it to supervise the conduct of its ...
Its U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) number is 8-53428. [1] WGS allows only properly licensed and registered WFG representatives to represent it. Its registered types of business include: Broker or dealer selling corporate debt securities (for example, bonds) Broker or dealer retailing corporate stocks over-the-counter
Some state laws and broker/dealer policies also require the Series 63 examination (known as the Uniform Securities Agent State Law Exam). [ citation needed ] [ 1 ] A registered representative ("RR" or "rep" or "broker") is authorized to sell a large array of securities such as stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, limited partnership programs ...
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (commonly referred to as LPL Financial) was founded in 1989 and is considered the largest independent broker-dealer in the United States. As of 2021 the company had more than 17,500 financial advisors, [4] over US$1 trillion in advisory and brokerage assets, [5] and generated approximately $10.3 billion in annual revenue for the 2023 fiscal year. [6]