FINRA Requests Comment on a Proposal to Amend Rule 3110 (Supervision) to Provide Firms the Option to Conduct Remote Inspections of Offices and Locations That Meet Specified Criteria
April 15, 2002The time period to correct a New Order Report or a subsequent order event depends on how long it has been since the New Order Report was accepted by OATS. The system maintains two files for validating data it has accepted: the Day Order File and the GTC File. The Day Order File contains all DAY, GTT, and Market orders for a rolling five business days. The GTC File contains GTC, GTM
August 16, 2001NASD Regulation reminds all firms that any order events received on an OATS business day must be reported to OATS by 04:00 Eastern Time (04:00:00 A.M.) the next calendar day. Those reports not received by 04:00 (04:00:00 A.M.) will be marked late.An OATS business day begins the second after the close of the day session of The Nasdaq Stock Market on one market day and ends at the
Proposed Rule Change to Amend FINRA Rule 6121 to Reflect Recent Amendments to the Regulation NMS Plan to Address Extraordinary Market Volatility
FINRA Makes Available Frequently Asked Questions and Guidance and Extends Effective Date of Margin Requirements for Covered Agency Transactions
February 12, 2002When a firm electronically routes an order to another firm, the routing firm must pass a Routed Order ID to the firm receiving the order. As defined in the OATS Reporting Technical Specifications, the Routed Order ID is an identifier assigned to an order by the order routing firm when the order is routed. It is the Receiving firm's responsibility to identify, record and
April 15, 2002
The April 8, 2002 Order Audit Trail System (OATS) Release includes a change in how the Account Type Code field will be handled by OATS. The Account Type Code field is now a required field for any electronically received orders reported by Non-ECN member firms. Those electronically received orders not containing a valid Account Type Code will be rejected with the rejection
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The Neutral Corner Volume 3 - 2017
April 15, 2002This article reminds member firms how to report changes to previously submitted and accepted data in OATS. Firms should refer to OATS Reporting Technical Specifications, Section 4, Order Reporting Scenarios and Section 6.5, Firm Generated Corrections and Deletions. In a nutshell, cancel and cancel/replace reports should be used to reflect a customer's instruction that an order