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Financial Planning June 1, 2007 Marshall Eckblad	4 Questions Mary Schapiro is chairman and CEO of the NASD, which is set to merge later this year with the New York Stock Exchange. Here, she spoke about the new organization that she has been appointed to lead.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2006	60 Seconds With...Grace Vogel An interview with the executive vice president of Member Firm Regulation for New York Stock Exchange Regulation about regulatory duplication and the NYSE's enforcement record.
Registered Rep. March 9, 2006 Halah Touryalai	NYSE Reg. And NASD: Merger `Em?; A Senate Committee Opens Hearings on SROs Are federal securities laws crafted in the 1930s still effective 70 years on? And, more important, is a privately owned, for-profit NYSE Group able to "self-regulate" itself without being mired in conflicts? And, as registered reps, should you care?
Registered Rep. January 22, 2007 John Churchill	Votes In, NASD and NYSE Merger Likely; Will Dissenters Challenge? The securities industry won't have dual self-regulatory organizations to complain about anymore. The NASD announced over the weekend that member firms overwhelmingly approved to consolidate the NASD and the NYSE into one.
Registered Rep. July 30, 2007 Halah Touryalai	FINRA Sticks as SEC Approves Regulator Consolidation After some minor bumps along the way, the NASD and NYSE merger is official.
Investment Advisor June 2006 Elizabeth Festa	B/d Briefing: Regulating Annuity Sales The NASD is taking steps to assess oversight of the sales of all types of annuities by the patchwork quilt of regulatory agencies overseeing the products and move toward a level playing field of regulation without formulating any new rulemaking of its own.
Wall Street & Technology January 6, 2006 Ivy Schmerken	Everything's Coming Up Hybrid Will a joint NYSE - NASD regulator result in the $100 million-a-year savings that the NASD is proposing in the hybrid regulation of dual member firms?
Registered Rep. August 21, 2006 Kristen French	NYSE and NASD Hold Merger Talks It is not yet clear whether a deal will actually go through, or whether the financial regulators would merge their arbitration systems or keep them separate.
Registered Rep. November 29, 2006 Kevin Burke	Small Firms Move to Block NYSE/NASD SRO Merger Not everybody is cheering the formation of a single self-regulatory organization. An insurgency of small brokerage firms is urging their peers to strike down yesterday's announced merger between the regulatory arms of NYSE and NASD.
Investment Advisor May 1, 2011 Bob Clark	The Polar Bears Thawing out our modern black and white thinking could save the fiduciary standard. I don't usually write about politics, except when it has a direct impact on financial advice, and this appears to be one of those times.
Registered Rep. December 14, 2005 David A. Geracioti	NYSE Regulators to Member Firms and Reps: We Are Watching You Broker/dealers had a very strong 2005. But so too did the regulators.
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Brian Hamburger	Regulation Season A look forward at the real effects of regulatory change - and they could be as unattractive as they are expensive.
Registered Rep. January 30, 2007 Halah Touryalai	At Independent B/D Confab, Optimism and Skepticism The head of the Financial Services Industry Institute is feeling a little more comfortable with regulators. But, on the other hand, the chairman of the FSI also warns that the combining of the NYSE and NASD might create a power struggle among "second-level" regulatory staffers.
On Wall Street August 1, 2009 Mark Astarita	Changes at the SEC: Schapiro Should Be Benefit to Advisors One can expect that as head of the SEC Mary Schapiro will understand the impact of new rule proposals and enforcement initiatives and will temper the calls for more extreme changes that would ultimately harm the markets and the financial industry.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2006 John Churchill	Schapiro in, Glauber Out at NASD in 2007 Mary Schapiro, head of NASD Regulatory Policy and Oversight, will be taking over for Robert Glauber as chairman of the NASD at the end of the year. One tough cop replaces another.
Registered Rep. May 14, 2007 Kevin Burke	NASD Chair Sees Better Oversight of New Products Mary Shapiro told mutual fund executives she sees better regulation of investment products as a result of a merged NYSE and NASD. While this may be better news for investors, purveyors of mutual funds may find themselves in the crosshairs.
Investment Advisor March 2007 Melanie Waddell	States' Rights The North American Securities Administrators Association's agenda includes preserving state regulators' authority.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 Bill Singer	Two-Tiered Justice? A recent SEC report shows that the NASD is far less enthusiastic about policing itself --- despite the fact that such self-regulation is part of its charter.
Investment Advisor March 2007	March 2007 NASAA reported that between 2004 and 2005, 26% of the 3,635 state enforcement actions dealt with the financial exploitation of seniors... Financial Services Institute Chairman John Simmers announced FSI will issue a white paper... etc.
Financial Advisor October 2009 Kristina Fausti	A Higher Standard It appears that the SEC will remain the primary federal regulator of investment advisors, at least for now.
Financial Planning February 1, 2008 Bob Veres	Death by Regulation The financial planning profession is about to fight for its survival against well-funded opponents. Here are some possible outcomes.
Registered Rep. July 18, 2007 Halah Touryalai	Can't We All Just Get Along? FPA says FINRA Won't Do for NYSE/NASD It's back to the drawing board, again, for the National Association of Security Dealers. Its new name choice, FINRA, has been called too broad by the Financial Planning Association.
Investment Advisor June 2010 Melanie Waddell	FINRA's Ketchum Sees a Fiduciary Future for B/Ds Inappropriate sales of VAs to seniors at top of FINRA regulatory radar.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Bill Singer	Who Regulates the Regulators? In the securities industry, brokers are expected to follow the rules. If you don't, you will be held accountable by the NASD. But what do you do if the NASD doesn't follow the law?
Registered Rep. October 25, 2006 Halah Touryalai	Another One Bites the Dust: Broker Fined Record Amount for Market-Timing Scheme The NASD fined Paul Saunders, a registered rep, CEO and majority owner of James River Capital Corporation, $2.25 million. That sum represents the largest fine against an individual for marketing timing, including disgorgement of about $750,000 in illegal profits.
Registered Rep. June 17, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	The Fiduciary Battle Continues, Now Under Federal Microscope Among other measures, the Obama administration proposed today that the Securities and Exchange Commission require that broker-dealers offering investment advice be held to the fiduciary standard rather than the suitability standard.
On Wall Street October 1, 2013	Five Questions with A. Heath Abshure A. Heath Abshure, the outgoing president of the North American Securities Administrators Association discusses his tenure.
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 David Spinar	Even the Playing Field Congress needs to standardize the regulations for investment advisors and broker-dealers.
Registered Rep. December 1, 2006 Kevin Burke	SEC Chairman Endorses Single SRO Now that SEC Chairman Christopher Cox has made creating a single SRO for the brokerage industry a top priority, why are some suddenly wondering if it's a good thing after all?
Registered Rep. December 15, 2005 John Churchill	Court to NASD: You Don't Have a Leg to Stand On For the first time in its 68 years as a self-regulatory organization, the National Association of Securities Dealers sued the Securities and Exchange Commission over a right it was never granted. Guess what? It lost.
Investment Advisor September 2010 Melanie Waddell	The Playing Field: The Dodd-Frank Reform Bill Afterlife A fiduciary standard for all may crimp RIAs' competitive edge.
Investment Advisor December 2006 Kathleen M. McBride	Three-Part Harmony Financial advisors, sing along as the SEC is set to look at proposals for regulatory rules that have been harmonized in an attempt to eliminate, or greatly reduce, conflicts, duplication, and confusion, in a new hybrid set of rules.
The Motley Fool November 29, 2006 S.J. Caplan	There's a New Sheriff Coming to Town The NASD and NYSE are to consolidate regulatory functions.
Financial Advisor September 2012 Jeff Schlegel	Not Making The Grade Financial advisors aren't as fiduciary as they should be, a new survey finds.
Financial Planning March 1, 2010	What's Happening to Regulation? Whether we like it or not, we do live in a post-Madoff world, and it's impossible to separate his crimes from the dialogue surrounding regulatory reform.
Financial Advisor November 2009 Jeff Schlegel	The Great Debate Financial services reform is coming. How will it impact advisors?
Investment Advisor March 1, 2011 Bob Clark	A Study in Flexibility SEC's Study on Investment Advisors and Broker-Dealers leaves too much wiggle room to declare victory yet.
Registered Rep. January 12, 2006 John Churchill	Schapiro in for Glauber at NASD 2007 The NASD Board of Governors announced today that Mary Schapiro, currently the self-regulator's head of Regulatory Policy and Oversight, will become the NASD's chairwoman when the term of its current chief ends in December 2006.
Registered Rep. January 1, 2007 Alan Lavine	Fish or Fowl? Are equity-indexed annuities securities or insurance? The NASD offered only loose recommendations to member firms about how sales of this product should be conducted and supervised, but most broker/dealers are implementing them anyway.
Financial Advisor April 2009 Jeff Schlegel	Fiduciary Fracas People from all corners of the financial services industry are weighing in with their ideas about the future shape of the industry, including thoughts about whether all financial advisors should be held to the fiduciary standard of client care.
Registered Rep. August 19, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	Haggling Over The F Word Continues Regulators, consumer advocates and politicians continue to hammer out what it might mean for Series 65 investment advisors and series 7 registered reps to adhere to the new fiduciary standard.
Investment Advisor July 2010 Melanie Waddell	A Whirlwind of SEC Activity Harmonization of advisor and B/D rules will move forward.
Financial Advisor October 2010 Scott A. MacKillop	One Standard, Period The debate over the fiduciary standard should be about clients - and it would be over in a heartbeat if it were.
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 Will Leitch	Elder Abuse, Advisor Style The NASD says it will propose "significant" regulatory changes to the way variable annuities are sold, claiming elderly clients are being "scared" into investing in products against their best interests.
Financial Advisor March 2011 Jeff Schlegel	Is Uniformity Possible? Broker-dealers expect some changes if a new fiduciary standard is adopted.
Registered Rep. December 4, 2006 Kevin Burke	FIA Urges NASD Committees to Revise Merger Small broker/dealer firms are trying to slow the proposed merger between the NASD and NYSE Regulation, saying that it's being pursued too hastily and the consequences are not clear.
Investment Advisor May 1, 2011 Kathleen McBride	SEC and the Fiduciary Study: Where Do We Go From Here? It's not whether to extend fiduciary duty, but how to extend it
Investment Advisor October 2010 Melanie Waddell	Dissecting the FSI's Position on Fiduciary As a new study finds investors still confused, Financial Services Institute president Dale Brown presents the independent broker/dealer perspective.
Registered Rep. February 1, 2006 John Churchill	Size-ism? Ten years after the formation of the Small Firms Advisory Board, many small firms say they are still getting pushed around by bigger firms -- and this time the NASD is taking the side of the bullies.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2007 Kevin Burke	The New SRO Plans for the NYSE/NASD regulatory consolidation are moving quickly toward an April 2 deadline. But executives question whether the proposed governance structure for the consolidated regulator could change the nature of regulation in the industry for the worse.