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A 3210 letter—formerly known as a 407 letter—refers to the written permission that an employer gives for certain member employees to hold investments. Firms can also request to receive duplicate account statements so that they can see the securities held in a member's personal investment accounts.

Rule 32101 Where, for five consecutive settlement days, there are aggregate fails to deliver at a registered clearing agency of 10,000 shares or more and the reported last sale during normal market hours would value the aggregate fail to deliver position at $50,000 or more.

Rule 3210 governs accounts opened by members at firms other than where they work. All employees must declare their intent and obtain their employers' consent if they wish to open or maintain an investment account at any other financial institution.

Rule 3210 requires financial advisors to make a request and obtain consent from the FINRA member firm they work for to keep their accounts somewhere else. It also requires a disclosure letter to the outside firm when a securities industry professional opens an account.

FINRA Rule 3210 requires an executing member, upon written request by an employer member, to transmit duplicate copies of confirmations and statements, or the transactional data contained therein, with respect to an account subject to the rule.

A 407 letter is a well known term in our industry that relates to accounts held outside a broker/dealer or RIA from an advisor's current firm. Rule 407 relates to NYSE Rule 407; NASD (FINRA) Conduct Rule 3050 also applies in this respect.

FINRA Rule 3210 requires an executing member, upon written request by an employer member, to transmit duplicate copies of confirmations and statements, or the transactional data contained therein, with respect to an account subject to the rule.

(a) No member or member organization shall, without the prior written consent of the employer, open a securities or commodities account or execute any transaction in which a member or employee associated with another member or member organization is directly or indirectly interested.