Series 24: Member Supervisory Controls

Member Supervisory Controls

It is not enough to establish and document a supervisory system that dictates procedures to monitor a firm’s compliance with regulatory rules and regulations. The procedures must also be enforced. To ensure that a supervisory system is functioning as required and that written procedures are being scrupulously obeyed, FINRA requires that each member firm set in place a system of written supervisory controls to police and enforce compliance of its own supervisory system.

Accordingly, each member firm must identify one or more principals who shall establish, maintain, and enforce this system of supervisory controls. This designated principal or compliance officer has the responsibility to test and verify the success of the member firm’s supervisory procedures and to amend or cre