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
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GUIDANCE
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Executive Summary
On September 30, 2004, the Securities and Exchange
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, July 31,
Guidance on Liquidity Risk Management Practices
FINRA Requests Comment on a Concept Proposal to Develop the Comprehensive Automated Risk Data System
On Thursday, March 18th, FINRA will conduct the first of its planned updates related to OATS retirement. During the call, FINRA staff will provide an update to the industry related to the OATS retirement efforts, including an overview of the related rule filing, status on the required accuracy and reliability standards that must be met before OATS can be retired, and a look ahead at next steps
FINRA has updated its Guidance on OATS Exchange Route Matching to reflect changes necessary for firms to successfully match OATS routes to the related order on the Members Equity Exchange. Specifically, the update applies to Binary Users accessing the Members Equity Exchange and how to populate the Connection ID in OATS to ensure proper matching. If you have any concerns regarding this matter,
Beginning on February 26, 2024, FINRA will re-platform the TRACE for Treasuries (TS) product to a new Linux-based operating system. This project does not require client changes to be made.
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) is filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) a proposed rule change to eliminate the Order Audit Trail System (“OATS”) rules in the FINRA Rule 7400 Series and FINRA Rule 4554 (Alternative Trading Systems — Recording and Reporting Requirements of Order and Execution Information for NMS Stocks) once members are
