FINRA Releases its Risk Monitoring and Exam Priorities Letter for 2019-Part 3

Posted on January 25th, 2019 at 3:05 PM
FINRA Releases its Risk Monitoring and Exam Priorities Letter for 2019-Part 3

From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law LLC:

FINRA has released its 2019 Risk Monitoring and Examination Priorities Letter to the public. This is the third in a series highlighting both FINRA’s new priorities, as well as ongoing issues discussed in the Letter.

Notably, FINRA addressed in a significant portion of its Letter the different “Market Risks” firms face in the industry. Some of the major issues FINRA addresses with regards to “Market Risk” include: “market manipulation”, “market monitoring”, and “best execution”.

To begin, FINRA stated that it will continue to focus on addressing market manipulation by enhancing its surveillance capabilities and providing firms with tools that they can use to identify possible manipulative activities. Moreover, FINRA plans on increasing machine learning to improve its ability to react to changes in the market and provide firms with cross-market supervision report cards. FINRA believes that issuing report cards will help firms identify potential manipulation across multiple firms, markets, and products and proactively address related compliance risks.

In addition, FINRA also will evaluate how firms monitor their customers’ activities to detect and prevent potentially manipulative or other prohibited trading activities.

Lastly, given that FINRA is concerned about firms failing to use reasonable diligence to assure that their customer order flows are directed to the best market, it will review firms’ best execution decisions. Furthermore, FINRA plans on reviewing how firms manage the conflict of interest between their duty of best execution and any inducements or benefits they receive from the routing or internalization of customer orders.

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