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FINRA and the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy are issuing this Investor Bulletin to urge you to consider adding a “trusted contact person” to your brokerage account.
FINRA licenses individuals and admits firms to the industry, writes rules to govern their behavior, examines them for regulatory compliance, and is sanctioned by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to discipline registered representatives and member firms that fail to comply with federal securities laws and FINRA's rules and ...
An IA must adhere to a fiduciary standard of care laid out in the US Investment Advisers Act of 1940.This standard requires IAs to act and serve a client's best interests with the intent to eliminate, or at least to expose, all potential conflicts of interest which might incline an investment adviser—consciously or unconsciously—to render advice which was not in the best interest of the IA ...
To become a registered representative in the United States, one must be sponsored by a broker/dealer firm and must pass the FINRA-administered Series 7 examination (known as the General Securities Representative Exam) or another Limited Representative Qualifications Exam.
As new fraud trends emerge and scammers continue to prey on vulnerable seniors and their investments, regulators are coming together to discuss preventative strategies -- and are calling upon...
In this list of financial regulatory and supervisory authorities, central banks are only listed where they act as direct supervisors of individual financial firms, and competition authorities and takeover panels are not listed unless they are set up exclusively for financial services.
Financial professionals who recommend clients buy a security or financial product are held to ethical standards that can be enforced by law. One such standard is known as the suitability rule ...
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