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Technical Notice

Update: OTC Transparency Symbology

July 08, 2016

This communication serves as an update to the FINRA OTC Transparency Technical Notice posted on July 5, 2016, regarding OTC Transparency Symbology. The new dates for this change are listed below.

As of Monday, July 18, 2016, the OTC Transparency (ATS and Non ATS) data on the finra.org website will reflect an issue's security symbol instead of the OATS symbol. This change will include data from the OTC Transparency downloadable files as illustrated in the OTC Transparency API Specifications for File Download v0.1. Therefore trades submitted as of July 18, 2016, will no longer reflect the OATS symbology.

Trades that were submitted to FINRA prior to Monday, July 18, 2016, will continue to be reflected with the OATS symbology. If any changes are made to these trades on or after July 18, 2016, then that data will be displayed with the security symbol and not the OATS symbology.

Please contact FINRA Product Management at (866) 899-2107 with any questions regarding this notice.