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6550. Emergency Authority

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As market conditions may warrant, in consultation with the SEC, FINRA may suspend the reporting or dissemination of certain Covered Securities Loans, or the reporting of certain Data Elements or Confidential Data Elements or the dissemination of certain Data Elements for such period of time as FINRA deems necessary.
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6540. Dissemination of Loan Information

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(a) Next Day Dissemination 

For each Initial Covered Securities Loan and Loan Modification reported to SLATE on a given business day, no later than the morning of the next business day, FINRA will make publicly available: 

(1) for an Initial Covered Securities Loan, the unique identifier assigned by FINRA to the Covered Securities Loan; 

6510. Definitions

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For the purposes of this Rule 6500 Series, the following terms have the following meaning:

(a) “Confidential Data Element” means an item of information that a Covered Person must report under SEA Rule 10c-1a(e) and FINRA Rule 6530(a)(2)(M) through (U).

6490. Processing of Company-Related Actions

(a) General
(1) In furtherance of FINRA's obligations to foster cooperation and coordination of the clearing, settling and processing of transactions in equity and debt securities of any issuer with a class of publicly traded, non-exchange listed, securities in the OTC market and, in general, to protect investors and the public interest, FINRA's Operations Department ("Department") reviews and processes documents related to announcements for SEA Rule 10b-17 Actions and Ot

6480. Multiple MPIDs for Quoting and Trading in OTC Equity Securities

(a) Any member that is required to obtain, or otherwise wishes to use, more than one Market Participant Symbol ("MPID") for purposes of quoting and trading OTC Equity Securities or for reporting trades to the OTC Reporting Facility must submit a written request, in the form required by FINRA, to, and obtain approval from, FINRA Market Operations for such additional MPID(s).
(b) A member that posts a quotation in an OTC Equity Security and reports to a FINRA system a trade resulting from such posted quotation must utilize

6460. Display of Customer Limit Orders

(a) Each OTC Market Maker displaying a priced quotation in any OTC Equity Security in an inter-dealer quotation system shall publish immediately a bid or offer that reflects:
(1) The price and the full size of each customer limit order held by the OTC Market Maker that is at a price that would improve the bid or offer of such OTC Market Maker in such security; and
(2) The full size of each customer limit order held b

6450. Restrictions on Access Fees

A member shall not impose, nor permit to be imposed, non-subscriber access or post-transaction fees against its published quotation in any OTC Equity Security that exceed or accumulate to more than:
(a) $0.003 per share, if the published quotation is priced equal to or greater than $1.00; or
(b) the lesser of 0.3% of the published quotation price on a per share basis or 30% of the minimum pricing increment under