Series 7: 13.3.5 Member Supervisory Controls

13.3.5   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 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 to establish, maintain, and enforce this system of supervisory controls. This designated princi