Firms involved in mergers, acquisitions, asset transfers (which may include but is not limited to registered representatives and customer accounts) and other operational changes must attend to various regulatory and investor-protection obligations.
FINRA encourages firms, and in some cases requires them, to notify their FINRA coordinator when planning these changes. By discussing these proposals
FINRA Requests Comment on a Concept Proposal to Develop the Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System
Guidance on Liquidity Risk Management Practices
Beginning August 3, 2020, members are required to begin to report transactions in U.S. Treasury Securities executed to hedge a List or Fixed Offering Price Transaction or a Takedown Transaction (as defined in FINRA Rule 6710) with an appropriate identifier. See additional information regarding this change in Regulatory Notice 19-30.
Testing
From Monday, June 1, 2020, through Friday,
The Daily Total Summary Data and Detail Data Download files for the OATS Compliance Report Card provide underlying totals and detail of the data contained in the monthly summary OATS Compliance Report Card.
The tables below represent the data within the Daily Totals Summary Report Card and the Detail Data Download files.
Summary Definitions and Data Fields
Term
The OATS Compliance Report Card is a monthly status report on the number and percentage of:
OATS Late Submissions;
Out of Sequence Events;
Unmatched Execution Reports;
Unmatched Exchange Route Reports;
Unmatched Interfirm Route Reports;
Unmatched Interfirm Routes Received; and
Unrepaired Repairable Rejected Order Events.
Member firms are required to submit Reportable Order
As part of its Transparency Services improvement initiative, FINRA will re-platform the TRACE for Treasuries (TS) product to a new Linux-based operating system. FINRA will implement this change on Monday, March 11, 2024; previously it was scheduled for February 26, 2024. Clients may continue to test in NTF through Friday, March 8, 2024.NTF: Available through Friday, March 8,
The access and use of any information submission functions, content, materials, or services available on the Maintaining Qualifications Program (“MQP”) is conditioned upon the acceptance by you, without modification, of these terms of use, and the terms and conditions displayed at https://www.finra.org/terms-of-use are incorporated herein by reference (collectively, "Terms of Use").
As part of FINRA’s Digital Experience Transformation, FINRA will begin consolidating most compliance system-generated notifications that are sent to firms into one notification system.
System-generated notifications will begin coming in a new format from:
E-mail: [email protected]
IP
The penny stock rules under the Exchange Act require broker-dealers engaging in certain over the counter transactions in low-priced stocks to provide customers with specified information. See Securities Exchange Act Release No. 30608 (April 20, 1992), 57 FR 18004 (April 28, 1992). The penny stock rules permit a broker-dealer to fulfill some of these disclosure obligations by relying on pricing
