Skip to main content

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. 

 

OTC Equities Daily List

The Daily List is a list of new issues, deleted issues, symbol and name changes, and other corporate actions for over-the-counter (OTC) equity securities, as well as historical OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB) securities. OTCBB was a FINRA interdealer quotation system that was retired in 11/2021. 

OTC Equities

 FINRA publishes data for over-the-counter (OTC) equities, which are securities reported to a FINRA equity trade reporting system, as opposed to on a centralized exchange. An OTC equity issue is generally considered to be any equity issue that is not a national market system (NMS) stock traded on a national issues exchange. Published data includes symbol changes, equity short interest, market statistics, thresholds and trading halts.

Dispute Resolution Statistics

Investors can file an arbitration claim or request mediation through FINRA when they have a dispute involving the business activities of a brokerage firm or one if its brokers.  FINRA publishes aggregate statistics on dispute resolution including data on  hearings, cases, controversy types, security types, results, awards and more. 

Margin Statistics

Pursuant to FINRA Rule 4521, FINRA member firms carrying margin accounts for customers are required to submit, on a settlement date basis, as of the last business day of the month, the total of all debit balances in securities margin accounts; and the total of all free credit balances in all cash accounts and all securities margin accounts. FINRA collects the required data via FINRA’s Customer Margin Balance Form. The data is compiled in aggregate form and made available below.