FINRA Alert! Order APPROVING a Proposed Rule Change to Amend FINRA Rule 6730 (Transaction Reporting) to Enhance TRACE Reporting Obligations for U.S. Treasury Securities.
On May 23, 2022, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”), pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Act”) and Rule 19b-4 thereunder, a proposed rule change to amend FINRA Rule 6730 (Transaction Reporting) to Enhance TRACE Reporting Obligations for U.S. Treasury Securities. The proposed rule change was published for comment in the Federal Register on June 3, 2022.
On July 13, 2022, pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the Act, the Commission designated a longer period within which to approve the proposed rule change, disapprove the proposed rule change, or institute proceedings to determine whether to disapprove the proposed rule change.
The Commission received five comments on the proposal. FINRA submitted a response to the comments on August 18, 2022.
This order approves the rule change.
What mean?
FINRA is proposing two changes to its Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (“TRACE”) reporting rules to enhance the regulatory audit trail and require members to report transactions in U.S. Treasury Securities to FINRA in a more timely manner. Information reported to TRACE regarding transactions in U.S. Treasury Securities is used for regulatory and other official sector purposes and is not disseminated publicly.
Among other regulatory uses, FINRA makes the data available to the official sector to assist in the monitoring and analysis of the U.S. Treasury Security markets. The first proposed change would require members to report electronically executed transactions in U.S. Treasury Securities to TRACE in the finest increment captured by the system that executed the transaction. FINRA is proposing to provide an exception from the amended execution timestamp provision for members with limited trading volume in U.S. Treasury Securities. The second proposed change would reduce the reporting timeframe for transactions in U.S. Treasury Securities.
