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Office of Fraud Detection and Market Intelligence (OFDMI)
The Office of Fraud Detection and Market Intelligence (OFDMI), created in 2009, centralizes FINRA's review of allegations of serious fraud and significant investor harm, and serves as a central point of contact, both internally and externally, on fraud-related issues.
OFDMI gathers and evaluates regulatory intelligence from a number of sources, including regulatory filings, tips and investor complaints, and expedites the review of high-risk tips and fraud-related matters by senior staff. OFDMI also conducts robust insider trading and fraud surveillance programs.
The department coordinates with Enforcement and other FINRA Departments to aggressively pursue matters under FINRA's jurisdiction, and refers matters involving potential fraud and misconduct that are outside of FINRA's jurisdiction to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or other regulators or law enforcement agencies for further investigation. In 2016, OFDMI referred more than 785 such matters. The SEC has kindly acknowledged FINRA's assistance in certain of its Litigation Releases.
OFDMI consists of four units: the Insider Trading Surveillance Group; the Fraud Surveillance Group; the Central Review Group and the Office of the Whistleblower.
The Insider Trading Surveillance Group, which also houses the PIPES (Private Investment in Public Equity) Group, analyzes trading activity across U.S. markets for evidence of insider trading. As of January 1, 2015, the Insider Trading Surveillance Group also includes the Options Regulatory Surveillance Agency (ORSA), allowing consolidated surveillance of potential insider trading in equities, corporate debt and options across U.S. markets.
The Fraud Surveillance Group analyzes trading across all equity markets, and detects and investigates fraudulent or manipulative activity, including issuer fraud, pump and dump stock schemes, market manipulation and account intrusions.
The Central Review Group, which consists of the Preliminary Investigations and Front End Cause units, performs preliminary investigations on certain matters and analyzes regulatory filings, investor complaints and other sources of regulatory intelligence for potential misconduct.
The Office of the Whistleblower analyzes tips and complaints of possible fraud or other misconduct that are submitted to FINRA’s Whistleblower hotline (1-866-96-FINRA or 1-866-963-4672) or mailbox (whistleblower@finra.org), and from other sources. Tips to FINRA’s Office of the Whistleblower are reviewed on an expedited basis by senior staff, and those warranting additional review and investigation are subject to an expedited regulatory response.
Whistleblower tips that fall outside FINRA's jurisdiction may be referred to the appropriate regulatory or law enforcement agencies. FINRA does not offer financial rewards for tips submitted to the Office of the Whistleblower.
LEADERSHIP
Cameron Funkhouser Cameron Funkhouser
Executive Vice President, OFDMI
STATISTICS
Referrals (Fraud Surveillance, Insider Trading, PIPEs Surveillance, Office of the Whisteblower) to the SEC and others: 785
Insider Trading Referrals to the SEC 435
WHISTLEBLOWER TIP-LINE
If you have information about potentially illegal or unethical activity, call 1-866-96-FINRA (1-866-963-4672), or write to whistleblower@finra.org.
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