December 17, 2004On November 24, 2004 NASDAQ issued a letter to ACES subscribers concerning translation issues in ACES that result in the routing and receiving firms reporting different OATS Routed Order IDs to OATS. NASDAQ's proposed short-term solution is for both routing and receiving firms to remove the spaces between the Branch and Sequence number when reporting the Routed Order ID to
Important Reg T Extension Request System Announcement
Many firms that file extensions via batch processing have been experiencing a large number of 'REJECTED' extensions with the following error message; "Original Extension Request not found. Secondary request rejected".
April 19, 2001OATS maintains an active file of the most current five business days for Market, GTT, and DAY orders ("the DAY Order file"). The Day Order file includes both New Order Reports and Cancel/Replace Reports and is used to validate subsequent order events. Reporting members have five business days from the date a Market, GTT, or DAY order is accepted by OATS, including the date
On February 27, 2014, the SEC approved FINRA's proposed rule filing SR-FINRA-2013-050. The approved amendment to the OATS rules requires firms to express time in milliseconds when reporting order information to OATS if the firm's systems capture time in milliseconds, effective April 7, 2014.
Executive Summary
The 1996-97 NASD broker/dealer and agent registration renewal cycle begins in early November. This program simplifies the registration renewal process through the payment of one invoiced amount that will include fees for NASD® personnel assessments, NASD branch-office fees, and American Stock Exchange (ASE), Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), New York Stock Exchange (NYSE
Current futures registrants may not offer or sell, or supervise persons who offer or sell, security futures until they have met certain proficiency requirements. Associates of registered commodity trading advisors and commodity pool operators must meet these proficiency requirements before engaging in security futures activities requiring registration as an associated person for those firms.
SEC Approves Proposed Rule Filing SR-FINRA-2011-063 related to Information Barrier ID, Customer Instruction Flag and the OATS Reporting Deadline.
FINRA publishes this quarterly review to provide firms with a sampling of recent disciplinary actions involving misconduct by registered representatives. The sample includes settled matters and decisions in litigated cases (National Adjudicatory Council (NAC) decisions and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decisions in FINRA cases).
Pursuant to a Securities and Exchange Commission request, FINRA has agreed to make reported short sale trade data publicly available
