The future of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is not being contested in headlines but in design choices.
Those choices now point in three possible directions: endurance as a distinct SRO, gradual absorption into federal machinery, or a hybrid evolution that blurs the line between the two.
Endurance through
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