TRACE data is available in the form of data feeds, either directly from FINRA or from retransmission vendors. Parties wishing to receive real-time TRACE data via a data feed must enter into a Vendor Agreement directly with FINRA. This agreement stipulates, among other things, the terms of use and data usage reporting requirements. 

Media outlets wishing to receive and redistribute the bond market aggregate statistics are required to execute an agreement with FINRA, after which access will be provided via a secure API connection. There are no fees associated with these data sets.

The TRACE Security Activity Report is a monthly report, provided on a 90-day delayed basis that provides aggregated statistics by security for corporate and agency bonds. The Report can be used to monitor trading activity for individual CUSIPs.

TRACE Enhanced Historical Data consists of transaction-level information including the price, the date and time of execution, transaction size and the yield. In addition, the data includes information previously not disseminated to the public, such as buy/sell indicators and counterparty (dealer or customer) information.

The Academic Corporate Bond TRACE Data set contains historic transaction-level data on all transactions in corporate bonds reported to TRACE. This data product is available solely to institutions of higher education and is intended to support academic research on corporate bonds by providing academics with access to masked identifying information regarding the dealer reporting each transaction. 

The fixed income distributions file is a cumulative list of distributions that have been announced per calendar year going back to 1/1/2017. Distributions include cash, stock and in kind distributions as a result of a bankruptcy reorganization plan, default interest payments, or other distributions in fixed income securities.

Created for firms, these reports and report cards display statistics related to firms' compliance with Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board rules and other requirements related to municipal securities and the MSRB's Electronic Municipal Market Access website.

Created for firms, these monthly reports cover trades of Treasuries, Securitized Products, Agency Bonds, and Corporate Debt that a member firm reported to the Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE).  Firms are required to report trades in accordance with established FINRA rules and regulations.

Scholars have published several papers that evaluate TRACE's impact on liquidity, valuation and other aspects of the U.S. Corporate Bond market. Abstracts and links to the studies are listed below.

Released quarterly and free of charge, the TRACE Fact Book gives individual investors, market professionals, media and educational institutions a historical perspective of the OTC U.S. corporate bond market. The Fact Book provides insight into data and trends based on aggregated data as reported through TRACE.