(a) Service on Each Party
Except as provided below, a complaint shall be served on each Party by the Department of Enforcement. When counsel for a Party or other person authorized to represent others under Rule 9141 agrees to accept service of the complaint, then the Department of Enforcement may serve the complaint on counsel for a Party or other person authorized to represent others
As previously communicated, beginning Monday, January 13, 2025, FINRA will require Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for access to all production API reference data files. This is the final reminder clients will receive regarding this change.Beginning on January 13, 2025, FINRA will no longer support the use of digital certificates to access the Reference data API and only MFA access will be
Summary
In February 2019, FINRA published Regulatory Notice 19-06, launching a retrospective review of Rule 4370 (Business Continuity Plans and Emergency Contact Information) to assess its effectiveness and efficiency (the BCP Rule Review). The COVID-19 pandemic, beginning in early 2020, caused unprecedented regulatory and operational impacts on member firms and other market participants, as
The Cyber and Analytics Unit (CAU) within FINRA’s Member Supervision program highlights recent cybersecurity risks at third-party providers (commonly referred to as third-party vendors) impacting member firms.
In observance of Independence Day, the ORF 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 the Trade Data Dissemination Service 2.0 (TDDS 2.0) and Bulletin Board Dissemination Service (BBDS) feed(s) should take the
As previously announced beginning Monday, September 9, 2024, FINRA will introduce a new protocol to the TRACE Corporate and Agency Data feeds.
As part of its Transparency Services improvement initiatives, beginning in December 2022, FINRA will re-platform the FINRA OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) to a new Linux-based operating system.1 This update is in addition to the Trade Data Dissemination Service (TDDS) protocol changes FINRA previously announced.
ORF currently supports timestamps up to milliseconds. Effective December 5, 2022, ORF
The Cybersecurity and Technology Governance section of the 2022 Report on FINRA’s Risk Monitoring and Examination Activities (the Report) informs member firms’ compliance programs by providing annual insights from FINRA’s ongoing regulatory operations, including (1) relevant regulatory obligations and related considerations, (2) exam findings and effective practices, and (3) additional resources.
SUGGESTED ROUTING*
Senior Management
Legal & Compliance
Operations
Systems
Trading
*These are suggested departments only. Others may be appropriate for your firm.
Participation in NASDAQ's Automated Confirmation Transaction (ACT) Service, which has been approved by the
Beginning Monday, July 24, 2023, FINRA will increase the bandwidth rate for the Trade Data Dissemination Service 2.1 (TDDS 2.1) vendor feed from 2,500 kilobits per second (Kbps) to 3,000 kilobits per second (Kbps). FINRA will offer testing for the new bandwidth rate and will announce details for the test as the date approaches.
TDDS 2.1 subscribers are encouraged to plan to ensure their systems
