Beginning August 3, 2020, members are required to begin to report transactions in U.S. Treasury Securities executed to hedge a List or Fixed Offering Price Transaction or a Takedown Transaction (as defined in FINRA Rule 6710) with an appropriate identifier. See additional information regarding this change in Regulatory Notice 19-30.
A production User Acceptance Test (UAT) for
FINRA has updated the TRACE for Corporate and Agency API Reference Data Specifications.
Beginning September 28, 2020, Seniority Type and Instrument Type are being renamed Security Type and Bond Type, respectively, for Corporate and ELN securities. These two fields will continue to be combined to create the Debt Type Code.
New values have also been added to Appendix 1 in the
In observance of Independence Day, the TRACE system will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2020. As stated in the data feed interface specifications, FINRA may send out unmarked test data via its data feeds on market holidays. Direct data feed subscribers, including recipients of TRACE data via the Bond Trading Dissemination Service (BTDS), Agency Trading Dissemination Service (ATDS), Structured
Beginning August 3, 2020, members are required to begin to report transactions in U.S. Treasury Securities executed to hedge a List or Fixed Offering Price Transaction or a Takedown Transaction (as defined in FINRA Rule 6710) with an appropriate identifier. See additional information regarding this change in Regulatory Notice 19-30.
Testing
From Monday, June 1, 2020, through Friday,
In observance of Memorial Day, the TRACE system will be closed on Monday, May 25, 2020. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Please contact FINRA Operations at (866) 776-0800 if you have any questions.
In observance of Good Friday, the TRACE system will be closed on Friday, April 10, 2020. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Please contact FINRA Operations at (866) 776-0800 if you have any questions.
As described in a December 2019 TRACE Technical Notice, beginning June 1, 2020, members were required to begin to report transactions in U.S. Treasury Securities executed to hedge a List or Fixed Offering Price Transaction or a Takedown Transaction (as defined in FINRA Rule 6710) with an appropriate identifier.
Due to current market conditions, and to allow members to adequately plan
<p>The Firm Quote Rule (SEC Rule 11Ac1-1) requires a member firm to execute trades submitted to it by a firm that has exceeded its Super Cap status unless: (i) the firm had failed to settle on a trade the previous day, (ii) ACT has publicized that the firm has exceeded its Super Cap status and its clearing firm is not willing to honor the trade, or (iii) the firm's clearing firm has deleted the clearing relationship.<br />
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Background
On December 20, 2019, the SEC approved an amendment to FINRA Rule 6750 to permit the publication of weekly aggregated transaction information and statistics on U.S. Treasury Securities. Starting today March 10, the new TRACE Treasury aggregates are published on FINRA's website.
Aggregated Reports
The Treasury Aggregate Statistics provide trading volume in U.S. Treasury
SEC Approves Amendments to Disseminate Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO) Transactions and to Reduce the Reporting Time for CMO Transactions
