December 17, 2004On November 24, 2004 NASDAQ issued a letter to ACES subscribers concerning translation issues in ACES that result in the routing and receiving firms reporting different OATS Routed Order IDs to OATS. NASDAQ's proposed short-term solution is for both routing and receiving firms to remove the spaces between the Branch and Sequence number when reporting the Routed Order ID to
December 17, 2004Beginning February 14, 2005, ECNs will be required to capture and report Routed Order Identifier information to OATS (See NASD Notice to Members 04-85). On that date, NASD, for routing firms, will begin including orders routed to ECNs as part of the Interfirm Route Matching statistics posted on the OATS Web Interface. Stats for ECNs and other order-
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WASHINGTON — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has introduced a new and improved Fund Analyzer tool to help investors and financial professionals understand the impact of fees and potentially discounts on mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, exchange-traded notes and money market funds.
The Fund Analyzer’s live data
FINRA Provides Guidance to Firms Regarding Anti- Money Laundering Program Requirements Under FINRA Rule 3310 Following Adoption of FinCEN’s Final Rule to Enhance Customer Due Diligence Requirements for Financial Institutions
WASHINGTON — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today announced it has fined J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC $1.25 million for failing to conduct timely or adequate background checks on approximately 8,600, or 95 percent, of its non-registered associated persons from January 2009 through May 2017.
Federal securities laws require broker-dealers to fingerprint certain
As of the September 18, 1999 release of OATS, firms may view online and/or download Execution and Combined Order/Execution Reports that do not match trade reports submitted to ACT.
Proposed Rule Change to Extend the Tier Size Pilot of Rule 6433 (Minimum Quotation Size Requirements for OTC Equity Securities)
November 2, 1999
Submitting ROEs via the OATS Web interface is a two-step process of creating, repairing, or correcting the ROE, and then sending it to OATS. Some Order Sending Organizations have been neglecting the second step of actually sending the order data to OATS. Use the following procedure to send order data to OATS after you create or repair them via the OATS Web interface:
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FINRA Reminds Firms of Exercise Cut-Off Time for Options Expiring on the Friday After Thanksgiving
October 4, 2000
OSO Administrators at NASD member OATS reporting firms are responsible for maintaining a list of contacts with whom OATS technical and regulatory staff can communicate concerning a variety of issues. The contact types required by OATS are:
Administrator—The primary contact for the OATS program.
Technical Support Contact—Assists the NASD in resolving OATS-related technical
