Consolidated Audit Trail, LLC and FINRA CAT, LLC host a Monthly CAT Implementation Update on the third Thursday of every month at 4:15 pm ET. The Monthly CAT Implementation Update meetings provide the industry with a high level overview of materials and guidance published on the www.catnmsplan.com website during the month.
On April 15, 2021, in addition to the regularly scheduled monthly implementation update, staff from FINRA (SRO) will provide an update on the status of OATS retirement.
Consolidated Audit Trail, LLC and FINRA CAT, LLC will host Industry Testing Checkpoint Calls every other Tuesday at 4:15 pm ET beginning on February 2, 2021 until further notice.
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On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 4:15 pm ET, Consolidated Audit Trail, LLC and FINRA CAT, LLC will host an industry webinar to review the requirements for translating Input Identifiers of CAT Customers to Transformed Identifier Values. All Industry Members are required to report Transformed Identifier Values for CAT Customers to the Customer and Account Information System (CAIS) beginning in July 2022. This webinar will also provide an overview of the paired files submission process for the CAIS Data file and Transformed Identifiers file. At the conclusion of the Transformed Identifiers Creation Webinar, we will transition into the regularly scheduled Industry Testing Checkpoint Call for CAIS/LTID.