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FINRA Publishes 2025 Industry Snapshot

Report Includes New Information Related to National Market System Off Hours Trading, Bitcoin ETP Trading, Firm Size and Account Owners

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FINRA published today the 2025 FINRA Industry Snapshot, the annual statistical report on registered representatives, brokerage firms and market activity that FINRA oversees.

The 2025 FINRA Industry Snapshot provides a high-level overview of FINRA membership, ranging from the number of FINRA-registered individuals to the overall revenues of firms, and from trading activity to how firms market their products and services.

"The FINRA Industry Snapshot provides a comprehensive look into the evolving structure and dynamics of the securities industry and markets. This detailed annual report provides the public with greater transparency into the activities of our members and FINRA's oversight, supporting a deeper understanding of this critical sector of the economy,” said Jonathan Sokobin, Executive Vice President, Chief Economist and Head of Regulatory Economics and Market Analysis at FINRA.

This year’s Industry Snapshot includes the following new special topics:

  • Off hours trading activity for National Market System (NMS) stocks, including monthly trade counts, dollar volumes and percentages
  • Average daily Bitcoin exchange-traded products, SPDR Gold Trust and SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust trade counts and dollar volumes by month

The report also includes additional information on the following special topics:

  • Firm Size - Data on customer order percentage, customer order execution percentage and customer order dollar volume percentage by firm size
  • Account Owner Type - Data on trading activity, order volumes and order placement by different account owner types across both NMS stocks and over-the-counter equities

Data behind the Industry Snapshot is available on the FINRA Data page on FINRA.org, which provides users with a one-stop access to data offerings from FINRA. This page allows users to easily find and sort the various sets of data that FINRA provides.

About FINRA

FINRA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to investor protection and market integrity. FINRA regulates one critical part of the securities industry—member brokerage firms doing business in the U.S. FINRA, overseen by the SEC, writes rules, examines for and enforces compliance with FINRA rules and federal securities laws, registers broker-dealer personnel and offers them education and training, and informs the investing public. In addition, FINRA provides surveillance and other regulatory services for equities and options markets, as well as trade reporting and other industry utilities. FINRA also administers a dispute resolution forum for investors and brokerage firms and their registered employees. For more information, visit www.finra.org.

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