Financial industry Regulatory Authority (Finra)
FINRA, MSRB Push for Bond Reference Price Disclosure
Industry rulemaking bodies FINRA and the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board are seeking comments from the industry on proposals to make bond dealers disclose same-day trade prices in the same security on trade confirmations sent to clients for retail…
CAT Conundrum: SROs, Vendors Vie to Build Consolidated Audit Trail
In 2012, the US Securities and Exchange Commission passed Rule 613, requesting the industry to develop a plan to build and run a platform capable of tracking and storing information on every order, cancellation, modification and trade execution for…
Fair Play? The Balancing Act of Finra's Involvement in the Selection and Bidding of the CAT
The fact the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is involved in both the selecting and bidding of the Consolidated Audit Trail has caused the regulatory body to take some heat.
SROs Submit Plan for Audit Trail, Initial Costs Estimates Average $53 Million
A group of self-regulatory organizations (SROs) selected by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) submitted its plan to build, implement and maintain the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) that will track activity in every National Market System (NMS)…
Finra Proposes Rule to Protect Investors, Analyze Brokerages
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) has begun soliciting comments for a proposed rule that would require brokerages to periodically report information on their securities accounts and the securities accounts for which they clear.
Exchanges, FINRA Reveal CAT Operator Shortlist
US self-regulatory organizations, including US exchanges and regulator FINRA, have selected six potential candidates for the role of processor of the US consolidated audit trail (CAT), which will capture all trades, quotes, cancellations and other…
Exchanges, FINRA Inch Closer to CAT Plan
US self-regulatory organizations including the US exchanges and regulator FINRA are preparing to narrow down the list of candidates for the role of processor of the US consolidated audit trail (CAT), which will capture all trades, quotes, cancellations…
Industry Firms Consult on CAT NMS Plan Response
As self-regulatory organizations evaluate bids to become the Consolidated Audit Trail processor, the Development Advisory Group of industry firms and organizations will offer input on related time stamping and manual order issues
Opening Cross: Everything Comes at a Cost, Even Cloud
Any discussion of return on investment relies on the ability to measure two things: the return generated, and the amount spent to achieve it. In the world of market data, the question is, “How much money can I make as a result of buying and using dataset…
Finra CIO Randich Says Hands On Cloud, Hands Off HFT
By his own admission, Finra CIO Steve Randich is engaged in a public relations campaign. Finra, the huge self-regulatory organization (SRO) overseeing most of the US market, isn't well-thought of in banking circles despite boasting an IT staff of 1,000…
SROs Deploy Advanced Tech to Keep Up with Members
Self-regulatory organizations can’t tap into company profits like banks, nor can they rely on taxpayer funding like government regulators. Still, using only membership dues, they must carry out their registration and surveillance functions of national…
Opening Cross: Market Data Meteorologists: Forecasting the Many Faces of Cloud
Over 200 years ago, British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard laid the foundations for the classification of clouds used today, which, in their various forms, can resemble anything from gauzy material shrouding the sky, to flying saucers,…
FINRA Begins Migration of Market Surveillance Apps to Amazon Cloud, Adopts Big Data Tech
US financial industry regulator FINRA is migrating all of its market surveillance platforms into the Amazon Web Services cloud, to enable the regulator to more efficiently store and process data, in a move that could deliver an annual cost saving of 40…
The More Things Change
Innovation in financial services data management has progressed significantly since a call to arms at Sibos 10 years ago, as shown by new initiatives from Finra and BNY Mellon. But how far has it come?
Finra CIO: Our New Technology Will Lead to More Focused Surveillance
Finra's CIO Steve Randich explained how its new systems of data collection and analysis will lead to a more focused and efficient way of monitoring broker-dealers and ensuring regulatory compliance, during the North American Financial Information Summit…
IRD Awards Include Big Wins For Fenergo, Interactive Data
Fenergo and Interactive Data score big in the Inside Reference Data Awards, as Thomson Reuters recaptures one prize, and Markit is honored for humanitarian work
Finra Identifies HFT, Algo Integrity as Regulatory Priorities
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), a self-funded regulatory organization charged with overseeing US brokers and exchanges, has released a letter outlining its list of regulatory priorities for 2014, among them high-frequency trading …
Finra Eyes New Surveillance System
The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra), a self-funded regulatory organization tasked with overseeing American brokers, is soliciting comment over a proposal for new method of collecting data on investment sales activities.
Trillium Begins Post-Trade Analytics Push
Trillium Labs, a software development spin-off from New York-based proprietary trading firm Trillium Trading has filed a patent for a new post-trade compliance monitoring tool for US equities trading that compares traders' order data to full order book…
S&P Capital IQ Displays Gov, Corp Bond Data Beside Evaluations
The pricing and data vendor has enhanced the transparency of its evaluated prices by displaying input data, including 2,000 daily government bond quotes in 37 currencies, on its valuations platform
