Section V: Request for Comments

FINRA encourages comments on this paper, including areas where FINRA may:

• offer guidance or modifications to its rules to address the adoption of quantum computing;
• foster greater crypto agility within firms to prepare for post-quantum cryptography; and
• seek to prepare for a quantum future while maintaining investor protection and market integrity.

FINRA also seeks input from financial industry market participants who:

• are currently exploring quantum computing, or considering how they may leverage the technology;
• are taking measures to enhance safeguards on their encrypted data, including those for quantum resistance; and
• have identified other use cases for quantum computing in the securities industry.

Comments are requested by March 15, 2024, though FINRA staff will continue to engage with market participants and welcomes input after the comment period closes.  Member firms and other interested parties may submit their comments using the following methods:

• online using FINRA’s comment form for this Notice;
• emailing comments to [email protected]; or
• mailing comments in hard copy to:

Jennifer Piorko Mitchell
Office of the Corporate Secretary
FINRA 1735 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006-1506

To help FINRA process comments more efficiently, persons should use only one method to comment on the proposal.

Important Notes:  All comments received in response to this paper will be made available to the public on the FINRA website. In general, FINRA will post comments as they are received.¹⁰⁰

Direct inquiries regarding this paper to Haimera Workie, Vice President, Office of Financial Innovation, at (202) 728-8128 or [email protected]; Michael Oh, Senior Director, Head of Blockchain Lab, Office of Financial Innovation, at (202) 728-8305 or [email protected]; or Alex Khachaturian, Director, Office of Financial Innovation at (202) 728-8275 or [email protected].

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