Operations, Regulation, and Books and Records

The second Series 27 chapter tests how the firm’s operational machinery works day to day. That includes settlement and delivery, confirmations, books and records, security counts, business continuity, and the foundational regulatory framework that shapes how associated persons behave. This function carries a large weight because a FINOP has to understand how operational workflow and regulatory discipline fit together.

Read this chapter as the firm’s operating-system layer. Start with trade processing and confirmations, then move into record preservation and reconciliation, and finish with the broad rules on supervision, conduct, AML, arbitration, and industry obligations that shape how operations and compliance decisions are made.

Series 27 section lessons

Use these section lessons as the main reading path for this Series 27 function. They keep FINOP calculations, filings, custody controls, and escalation decisions tied to the exact exam workflow.

In this section

• Clearance, Settlement, and Confirmations
  Review the operational trade-processing rules that drive settlement, delivery, transfers, buy-ins, and confirmations on Series 27.
• Books, Records, and Business Continuity
  Learn the record-preservation, reconciliation, security-count, and continuity controls that anchor Series 27 operations questions.
• Core Regulatory and Supervisory Framework
  Review the registration, conduct, AML, supervision, and dispute-resolution rules that Series 27 expects every FINOP to understand.