FINRA’s Maintaining Qualifications Program (MQP) is currently open for eligible individuals during a second enrollment period, until December 31, 2023.
The second enrollment period is available to those who terminated their registration between March 15, 2020, and March 14, 2022.
The FINRA Test Facility (NTF) for the OTC Reporting Facility (ORF) will be unavailable for testing all day Friday August 5, 2022, Thursday, August 11, 2022, and Friday, August 12, 2022. All other FINRA services, including TRACE and the ADF will be available for testing during this timeframe. The ORF test facility will conduct normal operations on August 8-10 and again beginning on August 15, 2022
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. 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
(a) Daily Reports to Newspapers
Reports for regular public release, such as a list of closing quotations or market summary information for newspaper publication, shall be produced in a format acceptable to most publishers without charge. Should such information be transmitted to another location at the request of any firm, a charge may be imposed for such services by FINRA or FINRA Regulation
You might know if the stock market is going up or down, but do you know what sectors are driving returns? The use of sectors is one of the most common ways to characterize markets, and the most used system is the Global Industry Classification System (GICS).
API tests provide quick feedback, resilience against brittleness in tests compared to UI end-end tests, and provide consistent results. The business logic implemented in the server-side as an API does not need to be tested from the UI/presentation layer.
FINRA currently supports three methods for the reporting of transactions to its TRACE and Over-The -Counter Reporting (ORF) products – FIX, Computer-to-Computer Interface (CTCI) and TRAQS.
Any client, including Service Bureaus, that currently utilizes CTCI and wishes to continue to deliver electronic transactions (i.e., not via TRAQS) needs to migrate to the FIX protocol by Monday, February 3,
FINRA may, upon notice, terminate ADF Data System service in the event that an ADF Trading Center fails to qualify under specified standards of eligibility or fails to pay promptly for services rendered by FINRA.
Amended by SR-FINRA-2008-021 eff. Dec. 15, 2008.
Amended by SR-NASD-2006-091 eff. March 5, 2007.
Amended by SR-NASD-2005-087 eff. Aug. 1, 2006.
Adopted by SR-NASD-2002-97 eff.
Earlier this year, FINRA introduced its Transparency Services Infrastructure Initiatives project and created a web page detailing this effort. Items highlighted on this web page include an infrastructure upgrade to the existing TRACE Trade Reporting system web application (TRAQS), a new web application for Issue Management, and enhanced Reference Data tools including firm
