Physical Receipt, Delivery, and Safeguarding of Cash, Checks, and Securities
Chapters in this video
- 0:00 The doomsday insolvency scenario
- 1:09 The customer-protection rule and segregation
- 3:43 The Special Reserve Bank Account
- 4:47 Verify before, confirm after: transmittal safeguards
- 6:00 Specific written authorization for negotiable instruments
- 7:02 SEC rule, FINRA enforcement: the jurisdiction split
- 8:00 Rapid-fire exam recap
What this video covers
- What the customer-protection rule requires: physical possession or control of fully paid and excess margin securities, and why segregation is non-negotiable
- How the Special Reserve Bank Account works, who it benefits exclusively, and what net cash owed to customers means for the reserve computation
- The four-step transmittal safeguard flow: verify instructions before, transmit, confirm with the customer after, and document
- Why a general trading authorization is insufficient for drawing a check from a customer's account, and what specific written authorization actually looks like
- The critical three-year record-retention rule for expired check-authorization documents
- The SEC-versus-FINRA jurisdiction split: who writes the customer-protection rule and who enforces it through inspections
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