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Revisions to TRACE BTDS Specification

FINRA’s Bond Trade Dissemination ServiceSM (BTDSSM ) broadcasts last sale price and other relevant trade data for US dollar-denominated, investment grade and high yield corporate bonds to authorized market data vendors. As the transactions are entered into TRACE, FINRA will automatically generate data messages to be disseminated real-time on BTDS.

This document defines the communications interface and message format requirements for the output from BTDS. All references to a time of day in these specifications are in Eastern Time.

Version 4.7
Published February 18, 2022
Current
Version 4.6A
Published May 14, 2018
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Version 4.6
Published March 28, 2018
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Version 4.5
Published April 7, 2017
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Version 4.4
Published December 9, 2015
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Version 4.3
Published May 18, 2015
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Version 4.2
Published March 2, 2015
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Version 4.1
Published January 12, 2015
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Version 4.0
Published December 15, 2014
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Version 3.4
Published November 19, 2012
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