From Monday, May 20, 2024, through Friday, May 31, 2024, the FINRA Test Facility (NTF) for TRACE Corporate and Agency Debt and TRACE Securitized Products will be modified to limit trade retention to five rolling business days. During that time, trades submitted in the NTF environment will only be available for cancellation or correction through T-5. After T-5 all trades must be reversed
From Monday, September 26, 2022, through Friday, September 30, 2022, the FINRA Test Facility (NTF) for the OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) will not include the trade reporting nanosecond enhancements FINRA previously announced. All other ORF testing functions will be available during this week, including TDDS 2.1 data dissemination.
Effective Monday, December 5, 2022, ORF will begin supporting
FINRA Rule 1210.09 established a waiver program for eligible individuals who left a member firm to work for a foreign or domestic financial services affiliate of a member firm with FINRA. FSAWP participants will be granted a waiver of their requalification requirements, including the Securities Industry Essentials® (SIE®) Exam, upon reapplying with FINRA within a single, fixed seven-year period,
In order to perform system maintenance, the FINRA Issue Data Management (IDM) and Participant Data Management (PDM) Test Facilities will be unavailable for client testing on Monday, July 14, and Tuesday, July 15, 2025.Production versions of IDM and PDM systems are unaffected by this event.The test region will become available again on July 16, 2025.
FINRA’s Maintaining Qualifications Program (MQP) allows eligible individuals to maintain their qualifications for up to five years by completing CE annually.
Required information, personal items allowed and test-center provided aids for Pearson VUE and Thomson Prometric test sites.
The AG position is the designation used in Form U4 as part of the CRD Program to identify a person who has been approved to sell securities in a particular jurisdiction. Many states require qualification by examination for this position; however, the qualification requirements vary between jurisdictions. The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), after consultation with
In support of the OATS for NMS initiative, FINRA will be making changes to the Production (PD) and Certificate Test (CT) environments.
In accordance with the SEC’s amendments to Exchange Act Rule 15c6-1(a) to shorten the standard settlement cycle from two business days (T+2) to one business day (T+1), FINRA will sponsor a final User Acceptance Test (UAT) to allow clients to test the changes for T+1 Settlement for the Over-The-Counter Reporting Facility (ORF) and the Alternative Display Facility (ADF). The test will
Currently, the FINRA Test Facility (NTF) for TRACE Corporate and Agency Debt and Securitized Products was temporarily modified to limit trade retention to five rolling business days.During this time the NTF Trade Management Window allowed users to search and view trades reported to TRACE within the past rolling five business days (T-5) instead of the standard rolling T-20 business day period.
