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TRACE Fact Book

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.

OTC Transparency

This data consist of aggregated over-the-counter (OTC) trading information published by FINRA on a delayed basis for each alternative trading system (ATS) and member firm with a trade reporting obligation for transactions in national market system (NMS) stocks and OTC equity securities under FINRA rules. The trading information is derived directly from OTC trades that ATSs and member firms report to FINRA’s equity trade reporting facilities. These data sets do not include information about transactions that occur on national securities exchanges. 

Symbol Directory

The Symbol Directory provides a search function to locate issues by name or symbol for over-the-counter (OTC) equities. The directory is available for both historical OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB) issues and other OTC issues. 

OTC Threshold

OTC Threshold data is published daily by FINRA to identify OTC equity securities with fails to deliver that are required to be closed out pursuant to Rule 203(b)(3) of Regulation SHO or FINRA Rule 4320. Firms must utilize the OTC Threshold list to ensure full compliance with the rules. While threshold status is based on the aggregate fail in a specific equity security, the obligation to close-out fail to deliver positions under both rules is at the participant level.