In observance of Juneteenth, FINRA’s Market Transparency Reporting Systems will be closed on Monday, June 19, 2023. Affected applications include:
Alternative Display Facility (ADF)
Over-the-Counter Reporting Facility (ORF)
Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE)
FINRA/Exchange Trade Reporting Facilities (TRFs)
As stated in the data feed interface specifications, FINRA may send out
FINRA’s cloud journey started more than a decade ago. During this journey we learned a lot and have provided significant contributions to the cloud service.
FINRA previously announced plans to update the TRACE for Treasuries FIX acknowledgement messages on Monday, July 10, 2023. In order to align this change with FINRA Regulatory Notice 22-27, which specifies timestamp granularity, the change for TRACE for Treasuries FIX receipt messages, including acknowledgments, will now go into effect on Monday, November 6, 2023.
Currently, the TRACE for
FINRA has delayed the implementation of the bandwidth increase rate for the Trade Data Dissemination Service 2.1 (TDDS 2.1) vendor feed. The bandwidth is scheduled to increase from 2,500 kilobits per second (Kbps) to 3,000 kilobits per second (Kbps).
The original date for this implementation was July 24, 2023. FINRA has also cancelled the June 10, 2023 User Acceptance Test. FINRA will issue new
Regulators to Discuss Protecting Seniors During World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
WASHINGTON—The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) and FINRA will be co-hosting the Senior Safe Act Webinar: Identifying and Reporting Suspected Exploitation. The discussion will build on the SEC, NASAA and FINRA’s joint training released in 2021
Mr. Seek joined FINRA in September 2020. He has been a trusted advisor to his business partners, clients and peers for more than 19 years. Over his career he has enjoyed working with his business partners to provide candid, practical advice on internal controls and process design. He actively networks with peers and shares information and stories on best practices, emerging trends, and
Trading an option contract with zero days to expiration is a that strategy has become more common as expirations in certain options have expanded to practically every day of the week. But selling and buying options with zero days to expiration can be risky.
There will be a traffic interruption in fileX service in CT and PROD environment for the duration below. Users can re-establish connection and resume file transfers after the maintenance window.
CT and PROD: Tuesday June 6, 2023 from 8 p.m to 10 p.m
Contact FINRA Support Center at (800) 321-6273, or by email, if you have any questions.
May 2, 2023
During this session, FINRA staff discuss the emerging trend of new account fraud, how bad actors are committing crimes through new account fraud, common practices to mitigate new account fraud, and applicable rules, regulations and guidance.
Speakers:
Blake Snyder, Senior Director, Financial Intelligence Unit
Gargi Sharma, Investigative Director, Special Investigations Unit
Carmi
I personally (not Bloomberg, LP nor any of its affiliates) believe that this is a good thing. Anyone that has searched for 605 reports needs to traverse a series of websites to find this information. In addition can you please have the broker/dealers add a header row, or at least an off file guide to reading the data. A crib sheet is also needed to understand how to look at this information -
