Technical Notice

Deletion of Approximately 16,000 Bonds from the TRACE System

Please be advised on Monday December 15, 2008, FINRA will delete approximately 16,000 defunct bonds from the TRACE system. The deletions will take effect December 16, 2008 and those bonds will no longer appear on the TRACE Issue Master on that date.

 

Due to the amount of bonds involved, the Daily List available via the TRACE Web application and Secure FTP will not contain these bonds under the Security Deletions section. Instead, FINRA will provide a file on December 15 that will contain these deletions. The file will be a pipe-delimited text file that conforms to the Daily List file format. The file will only be available upon request.

 

To request this file on December 15, please submit an email to FINRA Operations with the subject line "TRACE ISSUE DELETIONS". FINRA will return an email containing a compressed file of the deletions.

 

Please note: requests will be accepted via email only.

 

Questions concerning this notice may be directed to FINRA Operations at (866) 776-0800.