DRPS
Employment History
Acronyms
Exams
100

This is secures the government's interest in your property when you don't pay your federal debt.

What is a Tax Lien?
100
This happens when there are employment gaps less than 3 months listed on an Applicant's U4.
What is a NIGO?
100

This is a professional designation that measures the competence and integrity of the candidate.  Candidates are required to pass three levels of exams covering areas such as accounting, economics, ethics, money management and security analysis.

What is a 'Chartered Financial Analyst - CFA'

100

This is the Uniform Securities State Law exam administered by FINRA.

What is the Series 63 exam?
200

Illegal Offenses are “initially” revealed under this section of the Fingerprint report within the FINRA Gateway.

What is the DOJ page (or FBI page/Rapp sheet)?

200

This is created by entering data from fingerprint cards and then such information is directly submitted to an automated system electronically. This information is then available for use by criminal justice agencies and other requestors of a person’s criminal record.

What is the Criminal History Record Information [CHRI]

200

This is the Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination administered by FINRA.

What is the Series 65 Exam?
300

This happens when derogatory events are not properly disclosed with an Applicant's Previous Broker-Dealer.

What is a rejection by the Compliance Department?
300

This organizations resulted from the merger of the New York Stock Exchange's regulatory committee and the National Association of Securities Dealers.

What is the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)?

300

A window which an individual may schedule a securities exam.

What is a 120-day window?

400

This is the industry wide, self-regulatory organization for the U.S. derivatives industry, providing innovative and effective regulatory programs.

What is the National Futures Association?

400

This introductory-level exam assesses a candidate’s knowledge of basic securities industry information including concepts fundamental to working in the industry.

What is the Securities Industry Essentials Exam (SIE or Essentials)?

500

This is an exchange that focuses on options contracts for individual equities.  It is the world's largest options market. It captures a majority of the options traded. 

What is the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Cboe.

500

This exam measures the degree to which each candidate possesses the knowledge needed to perform the critical functions of a general securities principal, including the rules and statutory provisions applicable to the supervisory management of a general securities broker-dealer.

What is the Series 24 - General Securities Principal Exam