Beginning August 4, 2003, the MSRB will make available a new
service that will enhance dealers' ability to check their Rule
G-14 inter-dealer transaction reporting compliance. The service
will be added to the Dealer Feedback System (DFS), which currently
allows a dealer to access the trading data it has reported to
the MSRB. Currently, the services available through DFS include
reports of transaction reporting information on a one-month
delay basis. The new service will provide dealers with more
contemporaneous feedback in the form of a “snapshot”
report.
The snapshot report will be automatically generated two days
after trade date for each clearing number with transaction activity on the
referenced trading day. The report will
only contain information for the referenced trading day and will display
information about trades submitted late, stamped advisories, invalid times of
trade, uncompared input, and trades submitted with invalid executing broker
symbols. [1]
Dealers will be able to obtain the report by downloading it
from the DFS homepage in the same manner used to access the current DFS
reports. The report will be generated
in comma-delimited format and is easily imported into Excel. Additional documentation and instructions
for importing the report into Excel are available on the DFS homepage in the
Municipal Price Reporting / Transaction Reporting System section of the MSRB
web site at www.msrb.org.
Questions regarding this notice can be directed to John
Baughman, Senior Data Analyst, or a Transaction Reporting Assistant at (703)
797-6600.