Hello Sajha Guru haru, in an unrelated question. Does a financial institution know if I trade in stock without letting them know? My employer is a bank but I work in their IT in Wholesale banking. I do not know anything about stocks but since I work for their Wholesale Bank they had all employees, by default, sign their personal securities dealing policy compliance and have to get Pre-Clearance even for transactions in my Managed Account (i.e. Brokerage Account with only open-ended Mutual Funds in it). Btw, this brokerage account is also opened with same bank.

Would they know, say, if I started trading from another account (e-Trade)? i.e. if I do not report the transactions? The employer is one of the big banks.