Every year, millions of seniors become victims of financial exploitation, resulting in billions of dollars in personal losses. Protection of senior investors is a top priority for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and is the focus of several rules intended to thwart financial exploitation.
On May 14, 2018, amendments to FINRA Rule 2232 will take effect, which require a member firm to disclose on the customer confirmation the amount of mark-up or mark-down it applies for certain trades with retail customers in corporate or agency debt securities. Disclosed mark-ups must be calculated consistent with existing Rule 2121. With regard to the client confirmation requirements and
Due to a reference data file problem affecting TRACE MBS securities, transactions reported in these securities on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, between 8:00 a.m.ET and 11:49 a.m. ET were not disseminated via the SPDS and SPDS-144A data feeds.
Posted: April 12, 2019
Holiday Reminder
The TRF Systems will be closed on Friday, April 19, 2019. As stated in the data feed interface specifications, FINRA may send out unmarked test data via its data feeds on market holidays. Direct data feed subscribers, including recipients of TRF data, should take the necessary precautions to prevent data corruption. Thank you for your attention to this
February 12, 2002
The NASD Market Regulation staff urges firms transmitting order data to OATS via e-mail consider the option of downloading rejected data and resubmitting the file(s) via email. The NASD has established a new feature accessible via the OATS web site that will make the retrieval and resubmission of large volumes of rejected data easier and less time-consuming. On the OATS web
November 26, 2001When an Reportable Order Event (ROE) has been rejected, repaired, and is resubmitted, it is imperative that reporting members populate the Rejected ROE Resubmit Flag field with a value of "Y". The Rejected ROE Resubmit Flag of "Y" indicates that the ROE being submitted to OATS was previously rejected from or submitted to OATS. This particular value must be
November 2017
The Trading & Financial Compliance Examinations (TFCE) section of the Market Regulation Department (Market Regulation) at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA) is conducting a review of [FIRM] concerning the impact the receipt of order routing inducements, such as payment for order flow and maker-taker rebates, has on the Firm’s [equities and options]
November 26, 2001Firms that transmit order data to OATS via FTP or via CONNECT:Direct should consider the option of retrieving and resubmitting their rejected data via that same medium rather than by accessing them via the Web. The NASD has established this feature to make the retrieval and resubmission of large volumes of rejected data easier and less time-consuming. This is the preferable
December 19, 2002
NASD began posting each member's NASDAQ Execution System Order/Route Matching statistics on the OATS Web interface on November 1, 2002. These statistics reflect the percentage of OATS Route Reports and/or Combined Order/Route Reports with a Routing Method Code of "U" (SuperMontage) or "L" (SelectNet) that OATS was able to link to the related order in
