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Suppose that an Industry Member receives a complex order including an equity leg. The Industry Member then engages in a solicitation process to identify a contra party to pair the order against, and one or more market participants respond to the solicitation of interest. The Industry Member selects one or more of the responding market participants’ order(s) to execute against the original order, and sends a paired order(s) to an exchange for execution.

Consolidated Audit Trail, LLC and FINRA CAT, LLC will host a Monthly CAT Implementation Update on the third Thursday of every month at 4:15 pm ET beginning on September 17, 2020 until further notice. 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 Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 3:30 pm ET, Consolidated Audit Trail, LLC and FINRA CAT, LLC will host an industry webinar to provide an overview of the November 2020 Industry Member Compliance Report Card with addition of Interfirm, Exchange and TRF reporting statistics. 

Consolidated Audit Trail, LLC and FINRA CAT, LLC will host Weekly Industry Testing Checkpoint Calls every Tuesday at 4:15 pm ET beginning on January 7, 2020 until further notice. The events will be held at 4:15 pm ET.

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No, the handlingInstructions value of ‘CSC’ (Contingent on Spread Condition), introduced in the November 2020 Industry Member Technical Specifications, must not be reported on the New Order or Order Accepted events submitted to CAT if such spread conditions are associated with a particular algorithm.

For NAVs with no offset, the eventTimestamp on the MEOT should reflect the date and time of execution of the trade at the calculated NAV and should match the date and time of execution reported in the trade report submitted to the FINRA trade reporting facility. The price should be the calculated NAV.

Section 6.4(d)(iii) of the CAT NMS Plan, which describes the exemption for Options Market Maker quotes, states that “[w]ith respect to the reporting obligations of an Options Market Maker with regard to its quotes in Listed Options, Reportable Events required pursuant to Section 6.3(d)(ii) and (iv) shall be reported to the Central Repository by an Options Exchange in lieu of the reporting of such information by the Options Market Maker.” Section 6.4(d)(iii) also requires that, pursuant to the Compliance Rules of the Options Exchanges, Options Market Makers are required to report to an Optio