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Regulatory Notice 20-06

Summary

FINRA is updating the text of the Securities Exchange Act (SEA) financial responsibility rules in the Interpretations of Financial and Operational Rules to reflect the effectiveness of a rule change that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted.1 The SEC’s rule change, amending paragraph (e)(1)(i)(A) of SEA Rule 17a-5, relates to a specified exemption with regard to the annual reporting requirement for a broker-dealer whose securities business has been limited to acting as broker (agent) for a single issuer in soliciting subscriptions for securities

Technical Notice

FINRA Termination of CTCI Protocol for Reporting Trades to TRACE and ORF

February 24, 2020

This is a reminder that beginning Monday, March 16, 2020, FINRA will no longer support the reporting of transactions to its TRACE and OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) products via the CTCI protocol.

Any client, including Service Bureaus, that currently utilizes CTCI and wishes to continue to deliver electronic transactions (i.e. not via TRAQS) must migrate to the FIX protocol by Monday, March 16, 2020.