Finra (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority)

67 results about this entity

Period: 05 Jan 2009 - 08 May 2024

Finra forms Social Networking Task Force

US regulatory body Finra has formed a Social Networking Task Force to explore the compliance challenges posed by new Web 2.0 communications channels, such as FaceBook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Finra fines Scottrade $600,000 for AML failings

US online brokerage Scottrade has been hit with a $600,000 fine for failing to establish and implement an adequate anti-money laundering programme for its Internet-based business model.

Nyse makes move to improve dark pool transparency

With dark pools under the regulatory microscope, Nyse Euronext has struck a deal with five firms behind ATSs and off-exchange market centres to print trades made on the venues on the reporting facility it operates with Finra and display daily activity on Nyse.com.

Finra fines Citi $600,000 for weak trade supervision

Citi has been fined $600,000 by US regulators for lax supervision of trading strategies that helped foreign clients avoid taxes on dividends. The firm also failed to adequately monitor Bloomberg messages used to communicate about the trades.

Citi, UBS and Deutsche Bank fined over outsourced IPO communications

Citi, UBS and Deutsche Bank have been fined a total of $425,000 by US regulators and ordered to pay customers up to $420,000 for failing to supervise communications related to the 2006 initial public offering of Vonage Holdings.

Programming problems led to $1.1m fine for former Wachovia units

Two former Wachovia units have been fined $1.1 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) after computer programming problems meant they failed to provide more than 800,000 required notifications to customers.

E*Trade units fined $1m over AML failings

Two E*Trade units have been hit with a $1 million fine for anti-money laundering (AML) policy and procedure failures by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) which says the online brokerage failed to implement automated electronic systems.