As part of the expansion of the OATS Rules to all NMS stocks, FINRA will electronically link OATS Route Reports to the related order in the applicable NYSE market, similar to orders routed to a NASDAQ market.
Please be advised NASD will be making a system modification to the TRACE System to support processing of reports from transactions with Execution Dates that occurred more than a year prior to the date the report is made. Currently, the TRACE System can only process submitted and corrected trade reports executed between T-day (current day) and T+365 days (trade reports and corrections of T+1…365
FINRA’s trade reporting facility for fixed income celebrated its tenth year of existence in July 2012. During this 10-year span, an average of 500 dealers reported at least one transaction per day, and par value traded increased from a low of $19 billion a day in 2005 to over $23 billion today, surpassing the $21 billion per day seen at the onset in 2002 and 2003.
Pursuant to the Regulation NMS Plan to Address Extraordinary Market Volatility (Plan) (see Section VI(A)(1)), transactions that both (1) do not update the last sale price (except if solely because the transaction was reported late) and (2) are excepted or exempt from the SEC's trade-through rule (Reg NMS Rule 611) can be executed outside the price bands. To qualify, a trade must satisfy both prongs of the exclusion.
