NASAA questions SRO-regulation harmonization; Borg expresses concern that NASD rules will trump those of NYSE at new entity.(News)

Investment News, May, 2007

Byline: Dan Jamieson IRVINE, Calif. - State regulators are questioning whether some of the "harmonization'' of rules of the regulatory operations of NASD and the New York Stock Exchange will harm investor protection. The North American Securities Administrators Association Inc. of Washington, which represents state and provincial regulators, is concerned that NASD rules will be adopted in place of NYSE rules.

As a result, investor protection could be harmed, NASAA president Joseph Borg said during testimony at a Senate hearing May 17. Mr. Borg, director of the Alabama Securities Commission in Montgomery, said he is worried about several proposed NYSE rule changes that would adopt NASD standards for supervisor experience, broker training,...

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