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The SEC was established on October 26, 1936, by virtue of Commonwealth Act No. 83, or the Securities Act, in order to safeguard public interest in view of the local stock market boom at the time. It was created just two years after the United States Congress created the United States Securities and Exchange Commission .
A financial intermediary is an institution or individual that serves as a "middleman" among diverse parties in order to facilitate financial transactions.Common types include commercial banks, investment banks, stockbrokers, insurance and pension funds, pooled investment funds, leasing companies, and stock exchanges.
The Act was substantially revised in 1956, as the Uniform Securities Act of 1956. [4] This revision was much more successful, and was adopted by 37 jurisdictions. [1] The act was revised again in 1985 as the Uniform Securities Act of 1985, and amended in 1988, but few states adopted these changes, and instead continued to operate under the 1956 ...
The Securities and Exchange commission has rules in place which require investment brokers to be registered with them. This is for the protection of you, the consumer. It is just one way that the ...
Although broker-dealers often provide investment advice to their clients, in many situations they are exempt from registration under the U.S. Investment Advisers Act of 1940, so long as (i) the investment advice is "solely incidental" to brokerage activities; and (ii) the broker-dealer receives no "special compensation" for providing the ...
SoFi was founded in 2011 as a student loan refinancing company. In 2019, SoFi — , short for Social Finance — expanded into investment services, offering a user-friendly platform to new investors.
In connection with an investigation into the SEC's role in the collapse of Bear Stearns, in late September, 2008, the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets responded to an early formulation of this position by maintaining (1) it confuses leverage at the Bear Stearns holding company, which was never regulated by the net capital rule, with leverage at the broker-dealer subsidiaries covered by ...
The Philippine Dealing & Exchange Corp. (PDEx) is a dealing exchange for major banks in the Philippines. The primary exchange of the country for all sectors is the Philippine Stock Exchange . PDEx is licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as an Exchange under the provisions of the Securities Regulation Code (SRC).