Securities Regulation Daily Wrap Up, WORTH NOTING—Other regulatory activity and industry news, (Apr 29, 2016)
Organizations Mentioned:Financial Industry Regulatory Authority | Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
A weekly roundup of other items of interest to the securities community:
ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING—The SEC approved the 2016 annual accounting support fee for the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
MUNICIPAL SECURITIES NEWS—The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board announced that it will make its municipal bond trading data freely available to academic institutions through Wharton Research Data Services.
FINRA NEWS AND SPEECHES— FINRA announced that it is providing additional data on trading by dark pools and other alternative trading systems. The additional data covers approximately 20 percent of all trading volume in National Market System equities. FINRA also issued a regulatory notice announcing that new Rule 6732 (Exemption from Trade Reporting Obligation for Certain Transactions on an Alternative Trading System) will become effective on July 18, 2016. The rule provides FINRA staff with the authority to grant a member alternative trading system an exemption from the TRACE trade reporting obligations of Rule 6730 for transactions occurring on an ATS that meet specified conditions. FINRA also proposed to delay implementation of Rule 2242 (Debt Research Analysts and Debt Research Reports) until July 16, 2016.
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