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FINRA applications and support services appear to be operating normally. This includes the TRACE New Issue form and Market Operations phones lines. FINRA will continue to monitor its systems and support services and will send additional updates as necessary.
As part of its Transparency Services improvement initiatives FINRA will re- platform the OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) to a new Linux-based operating system. These changes will include Trade Data Dissemination Service (TDDS) protocol changes, and ORF will begin supporting timestamps up to nanosecond granularity (HH:MM:SS.sssssssss) in accordance with amendments to FINRA’s equity trade reporting
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
WASHINGTON – With great sadness, FINRA today announced that Thomas Gira, Executive Vice President of Market Regulation and Transparency Services, passed away on Saturday, June 20. He was 58.
“Tom was a beloved and devoted husband and father, as well as a tremendous leader, colleague and friend, and we are enormously heartbroken by his passing. We extend our most sincere condolences to Tom’s
FINRA announced that it has released Guidance on Liquidity Risk Management Practices, the results of a year-long review of firms’ contingency plans and processes related to managing liquidity needs in a stressed environment.
Firms to Pay $1.4 Million in Restitution to Approximately 100 Affected Customers
WASHINGTON—FINRA announced today that Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC (Wells Fargo) have agreed to pay more than $1.4 million in restitution, plus interest, to approximately 100 customers and fines totaling $675,000 for failing to supervise recommendations that
As part of its Transparency Services improvement initiative, beginning Monday, September 9, 2024, FINRA will re-platform the TRACE Corporate and Agency product to a new Linux-based operating system. FINRA encourages client testing participation in this effort to validate that all processes work within the TRACE reporting framework.As part of this migration FINRA will introduce a new protocol to
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, FINRA’s Guidance on
Firms Failed to Reasonably Supervise 529 Plan Share-Class Recommendations Made to Customers; Matters Identified Prior to FINRA Initiative Launched in January
WASHINGTON — FINRA announced today that Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (Merrill Lynch), Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA), and Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. (RJFS) have agreed to pay a total
Eligible individuals enroll in FINRA’s Maintaining Qualifications Program (MQP), the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA)’s Exam Validity Extension Program for Broker-Dealer Agents (AG EVEP), or NASAA's EVEP for Investment Adviser Representatives (IAR EVEP) via FinPro. Learn more about accessing FinPro and view a selection of user guides detailing how to enroll in the