Pending SEC approval, Investors' Exchange LLC will be operating as the stock exchange, Investors Exchange.
FINRA is issuing this OATS Report to describe the new reverse linkage process and feedback for instances where OATS was unable to find the related Route Report or Execution Report for an OATS new order event, exchange order, or TRF/ADF/ORF trade report.
On June 30th of this year, a leap second will be added after 23:59:59 GMT.
Regulation T and SEA Rule 15c3-3 Extension of Time Requests Under a T+1 Settlement Cycle
By Robert Cook, President and CEO, FINRA. In October 2023, the SEC adopted Rule 10c-1a, which is intended to enhance transparency in the securities lending market. In effect, the rule requires market participants to report securities lending transactions to FINRA, and requires FINRA to adopt rules establishing a system to facilitate such reporting and to publicly disseminate specified reported loan information. Earlier this month, the SEC approved the required FINRA rules.
FINRA’s legacy file transfer service (filetransfer.finra.org) will be shut down on 7/1/2020. By now, all FINRA applications file transfers that were using the legacy service should have migrated to fileX file transfer service. Details about fileX service and user guide can be found on https://www.finra.org/filing-reporting/data-transfer-tools/fileX.
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Summary
FINRA has amended its rules to require firms to report time fields in trade reports submitted to a FINRA equity trade reporting facility (or FINRA Facility)1 using the same timestamp granularity that they use when reporting to the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). Once the amendments are effective, firms that report time on CAT order execution events in increments finer than milliseconds
With the holiday season upon us and 2023 coming to an end, FINRA’s Cyber and Analytics Unit (CAU) would like to remind member firms to prepare for cyber threats and attacks that may occur around the holidays. Member firms and their vendors should consider reviewing and validating their Written Supervisory Procedures (WSPs), continuing to educate their employees with respect to cybersecurity and effective practices, and testing incident response plans (IRPs) to prepare for, prevent, or recover from an incident.
SEC Approves Amendments Regarding OATS Routing Method Code for Intermarket Sweep Orders
As previously announced in the March 21, 2007 OATS Reporting Technical Specifications, a new Routing Method Code of “I” (Intermarket Sweep Order) became available on June 11, 2007. As of February 4, 2008, the Routing Method Code of “I” will be required in the OATS Route and/or Combined Order/Route Reports for all OATS reportable orders routed to another market center that are identified to the receiving market center as an ISO.
