TRACE ATDS Specification

In association with TRACE, FINRA will release the Agency Debt Trade Dissemination Service^SM (ATDS^SM) on March 1, 2010. The ATDS data feed will be used to broadcast last sale price and other relevant trade data to authorized market data vendors for US dollar-denominated Debt securities that are issued or guaranteed by an Agency or by a Government-Sponsored Enterprise, and are TRACE-eligible. As the transactions are entered into TRACE, FINRA will automatically generate data messages to be disseminated real-time on ATDS.

This document defines the communications interface and message format requirements for the output from ATDS. All references to a time of day in this specification are in Eastern Standard/Daylight Time.

TRACE ATDS Specification - version 1 (published 9/30/09)
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