RKS Consulting Services

Services

Broker/Dealer

  • FINRA New Membership Applications (“NMA”)
  • FINRA Continuing Membership Applications (“CMA”)
  • Overall Compliance Strategies and Execution
  • Outsourced CCO
  • Written Supervisory Policies and Procedures
  • Annual Anti-Money Laundering Assessments
  • Advertising and Sales Literature Reviews
  • Customer Transactions and Employee Personal Trading Reviews
  • E-mail Reviews, including implementation of surveillance platforms
  • Financial and Operations Principal (FinOp) Services
  • Annual Compliance Meetings and Firm Element Training

Investment Advisor

  • Outsourced CCO
  • Overall Compliance Strategies and Execution
  • Creating and Updating Code of Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures Manuals
  • Marketing Material Reviews
  • Customer Transactions and Employee Personal Trading Reviews
  • Rule 206(4)-7 Annual Compliance Reviews and Mock Audits
  • Rule 206(4)-7 Annual Compliance Reviews and Mock Audits

Investment Bank

  • SEC 15a-6 Chaperone Broker-Dealer Services
  • Assistance with obligation to comply with research safe harbors rules (e.g. – Securities Act Rules
    137, 138 or 139, Regulation M, Rules 14e-3 and 14e-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), while working with your SAs to efficiently publish and issue research.
  • Comply with research disclosure requirements per FINRA rule 2241 and 2242
  • Comply with Wall crossing requests
  • Chaperone interactions between research and investment banking personnel

Principal Designations

  • NFA Principal
  • Option Principal
  • General Securities Principal
  • Investment Advisor Principal
  • Municipal Securities Principal
  • Financial/Operations Principal
  • Securities Trader Principal
  • Investment Banking Principal
  • Supervisory Research Principal