Regulations
Series 7 regulations
A Series 7 regulations guide covering FINRA rules, SEC rules, communications, records, customer complaints, Reg BI, AML, privacy, and prohibited conduct.
Regulation questions are usually practical
The exam rarely asks for legal theory. It asks what a representative or firm must do: disclose, supervise, preserve records, approve communications, handle complaints, avoid misleading statements, or escalate suspicious activity. The best way to study rules is to attach each rule to the action it requires.
Regulatory buckets to separate
Communications
Retail communications, correspondence, supervision, approval, and fair/balanced presentation.
Customer conduct
Recommendations, conflicts, Reg BI obligations, customer profile facts, and disclosure.
Books and records
Confirmations, account records, complaints, trade records, and retention expectations.
Prohibited conduct
Manipulation, sharing in accounts, guarantees, outside business activity, and exam-content confidentiality.
How PassSeries7 teaches regulations
PassSeries7 turns that work into one chapter loop: a 436-page textbook, 385 flashcards, 1,000 mapped practice questions, endless practice, readiness tracking, and a 125-question timed simulation. Regulation content is spread through account, communications, recommendations, offerings, settlement, and dispute chapters so rules stay tied to realistic actions.
Turn each rule into a trigger
Regulatory content becomes easier when every rule has a trigger and an action. A complaint triggers records and escalation. A retail communication triggers supervision and fair presentation. A recommendation triggers customer-profile and conflict analysis. Suspicious activity triggers AML review. A prohibited guarantee triggers a no-go answer. Practicing regulations this way turns rule recall into exam behavior: spot the fact, name the duty, choose the compliant action.
Trigger
Find the fact that wakes up the rule.
Duty
Name what the representative or firm must do.
Prohibition
Eliminate answers that promise, hide, or bypass required process.
Regulatory questions reward boring answers
On regulation questions, the right answer often sounds procedural: disclose, document, supervise, escalate, preserve, approve, or decline. Be suspicious of answers that promise results, skip approval, hide conflicts, or treat customer permission as a substitute for firm process. The Series 7 is testing whether an entry-level representative recognizes the compliant next step, not whether they can improvise around the rule.
Frequently asked
Do I need to memorize rule numbers?
Some rule names and concepts matter, but most questions test the action required by the rule rather than a rule-number recital.
Is Reg BI tested on the Series 7?
Reg BI concepts can appear through recommendations, conflicts, disclosures, and customer best-interest obligations.
How should I study regulations?
Turn each rule into a trigger and required action: what fact appears, what must the representative or firm do, and what is prohibited?
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Use mapped explanations to connect each rule to what the representative or firm must do on exam day.
PassSeries7 is an independent study product and is not affiliated with FINRA or any official exam body. The 2026 FINRA Series 7 outline is published at finra.org/series7.
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