Effective March 1995
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Executive Summary
Some of the self-regulatory organizations (SROs) comprising the Intermarket Surveillance Group (ISG) agreed to adopt policies to ensure uniform reporting of all short interest in traded securities. The NASD has amended Article III, Section 41 of the NASD
Effective Date: May 1, 1995
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has recently approved revisions to several NASD qualification examinations. These changes become effective May 1, 1995. The revised examinations include the following.
Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Representative
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The 1994-95 NASD broker/dealer and agent registration renewal cycle begins its second phase this month. The NASD is publishing information in this Notice to help members review, reconcile, and respond to the final adjusted invoice packages that were mailed to all member firms
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As of January 26, 1995, the following 19 issues joined the Nasdaq National Market®, bringing the total number of issues to 3,747:
Symbol
Company
Entry Date
SOES Execution Level
CAFI
Camco Financial Corp.
12/30/94
200
TLMDA
Telemundo
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As of January 30, 1995, the following bonds were added to the Fixed Income Pricing System (FIPSSM). These bonds are not subject to mandatory quotation:
Symbol
Name
Coupon
Maturity
DLMH.GA
Delaware Mgmt. Holdings
10.250
3/15/04
BVLF.GA
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Executive Summary
On February 8, 1995, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a new Part XII to Schedule C of the NASD By-Laws prescribing requirements for the
Beginning Monday, August 14, 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).
TDDS 2.1 subscribers should ensure their systems can accept the higher data rates. The TDDS 2.1 data rate change does not impact any of the ORF reporting applications (FIX and TRAQS
Beginning Friday, September 29, 2023, an enhancement to the client certificate request process will be introduced, and FINRA API clients will have additional encryption options during their recertification process. Clients will still be able to retain the client certificate size of 1024 bit, but will now be given choices to increase this size upon a certificate renewal.
Please see the technical
FINRA has observed a number of TRACE and ORF clients experiencing problems accessing TRAQS. Users are presented with an entitlement error.
FIX trade reporting is unaffected by this issue. FINRA is currently researching the problem and will provide an update when it is known.
TRAQS clients with questions regarding this issue should contact FINRA Market
FINRA has resolved the entitlement error issue affecting TRACE and ORF clients accessing TRAQS.
TRAQS clients with questions regarding this issue should contact FINRA Market Operations at (866) 776-0800.
