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Thus, for example, in the United States the law (in particular, the SEC's customer protection rule, Rule 15c3-3) generally requires that a broker must take steps to hold separately, in separate (segregated) accounts on the broker's books, securities it holds for its customers from securities of the broker itself. [1] [2] [3] The purpose of the ...
Second, to adopt the Alternative Method a broker-dealer must compute the "aggregate debit balances" owed by customers under the "customer reserve formula" specified by SEC Rule 15c3-3. Many small broker-dealers prefer to comply with one of the three exemptions from the Rule 15c3-3 requirements rather than create the operational capabilities to ...
The use of the term NRSRO began in 1975 when the SEC promulgated rules regarding bank and broker-dealer net capital requirements (17 CFR 240.15c3-1). [1] Prior to 1975, the SEC did not adopt specific standards for determining which credit rating agencies were "nationally recognized", and instead addressed the question on a case-by-case basis. [2]
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday struck down the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's overhaul of Treasury dealer rules adopted earlier this year, finding that the agency had overstepped ...
The SEC was created by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to enforce the Securities Act of 1933. [3] The SEC oversees several important organizations: for example, FINRA, a self-regulatory organization, is regulated by the SEC. FINRA promulgates rules that govern broker-dealers and certain
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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.
This owes to changes to the net capital rule, Rule 15c3-1, that the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted in July 2013, [4] which amended the regulatory capital requirements for US-regulated broker-dealers and required sponsored access trades to go through the sponsoring broker's pre-trade risk layer.