Today, FINRA issued three Regulatory Notices requesting comments on proposed changes to various rules relating to financing transactions.
Regulatory Notice 17-14 requests comment on all of FINRA's existing rules, operations and administrative processes that address the capital-raising activities of its member firms, including recent additions regarding capital acquisition brokers and funding portals.
Regulatory Notice 17-15 requests comment on proposed amendments to modernize, simplify and clarify FINRA Rule 5110, the Corporate Financing Rule, which affects all public offerings.
Regulatory Notice 17-16 clarifies the application of FINRA's research rules to desk commentary by sales and trading and principal trading personnel and solicits comments on a proposal to create a limited safe harbor for eligible desk commentary that may rise to the level of a research report.
Comments on the Notices are requested by May 30, 2017. See: http://www.finra.org/newsroom/2017/finra-requests-comment-rules-impacting-capital-formation
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