"finalize by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It means to complete or finish something by a specific time or deadline. Example: Please finalize your project report by Friday afternoon so that we can submit it to the client on time.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, an international group of regulators, is expected to finalize by the end of the year new guidelines that call for increased capital and liquidity requirements.
Mr. Polakow-Suransky said officials would finalize by next week a list of schools marked for "early engagement," meaning that the city might explore closing the school, bringing in a new principal or taking other serious measures.
"However, approximately 180,000 home buyers who signed a contract in good faith to receive the tax credit may not be able to finalize by the end of June due to delays in the mortgage process, particularly for short sales".
We finalize by discussing the main lessons learned from the participation of several hundred researchers worldwide in the MDC Tracks.
We finalize by exploring how the results of this study could be used to further improve our gamified learning approach, making it smarter and more adaptive to students.
The announcement adds more detail and begins the process of creating a formal rule that the agency expects to finalize by November.
The deal is expected to be finalized by May.
The goal was to have trade agreements finalized by 2005.
Officials said the rules could be finalized by the fall of 2014.
The deal is to be finalized by a self-imposed deadline of 30 June.
The U.S.'s N.D.C., for instance, relies on power-plant regulations recently finalized by the Obama Administration.
