Posted: March 26, 2020
The latest edition of the OATS Reporting Technical Specifications dated March 26, 2020 is now available.
This edition includes updates related to the onboarding of the Long-Term Stock Exchange. The changes will be effective in the OATS Certificate Test Environment on April 24, 2020 and in the OATS Production Environment on May 15, 2020.
In addition,
As previously communicated, beginning Monday, January 13, 2025, FINRA will require Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) for access to all production API reference data files. Beginning on January 13, 2025, FINRA will no longer support the use of digital certificates to access the Reference data API and only MFA access will be supported. Failure to use MFA starting on that date
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
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Executive Summary
A revised edition of
The latest edition of the OATS Reporting Technical Specifications dated March 26, 2020 is now available.
This edition includes updates related to the onboarding of the Long-Term Stock Exchange. The changes will be effective in the OATS Certificate Test Environment on April 24, 2020 and in the OATS Production Environment on May 15, 2020.
In addition, FINRA’s Guidance on OATS
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As previously announced FINRA 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 new date for this implementation is now Monday, August 14, 2023.
Testing
FINRA will test the new bandwidth rate on
As part of its Transparency Services improvement initiative, beginning Monday, May 19, 2025, FINRA will re-platform TRACE Securitized Products (SP) to a new Linux-based operating system. FINRA requires client testing participation in this effort to validate that all processes work within the TRACE reporting framework. TRACE clients who utilize FIX for SP trade entry and other transactions should
As part of its Transparency Services improvement initiative, beginning Monday, May 19, 2025, FINRA will re-platform TRACE Securitized Products (SP) to a new Linux-based operating system. As a reminder, FINRA requires client testing participation in this effort to validate that all processes work within the TRACE reporting framework. TRACE clients who utilize FIX for SP trade entry and other
On March 29, 2019, the data collection requirements under the National Market System (NMS) Plan to implement a Tick Size Pilot Program (Tick Size Pilot) will come to an end. As a result, the Pilot Securities File and Change File will no longer be produced on a daily basis. At the conclusion of the pilot, a blank Tick Size Pilot Securities file will be produced, and the Change File will be updated
