Talking in regards to the standing of the Consolidated Audit Path’s transaction database on Thursday, Monetary Trade Regulatory Authority CEO Robert Prepare dinner stated, “Mission achieved.” Prepare dinner additionally signaled that paring again the quantity of data collected by way of CAT could also be warranted.
“In case you return and take into consideration what was the aim of CAT — popping out of the flash crash, the SEC wasn’t ready to reconstruct what occurred; it didn’t have the info out there,” Prepare dinner stated throughout feedback on the Securities Merchants Affiliation’s annual Market Construction convention, held in Washington.
“Quick ahead to as we speak, we’ve an built-in consolidated audit path that permits for surveillance of all listed merchandise in [over the counter] buying and selling; it permits for market reconstruction, it permits for coverage informing/coverage evaluation,” Prepare dinner defined.
CAT is the SEC-mandated central repository of trades, quotes and orders for all U.S. exchange-listed and over-the-counter fairness securities and U.S. exchange-listed choices contracts throughout all U.S. markets and buying and selling venues. Buyers’ private identifiable data, or PII, turned out there by way of the CAT on March 17.
Whereas there are “tons of issues that individuals elevate with CAT,” Prepare dinner defined, “total, the transactional database has been very profitable in assembly these objectives.”
As for “respectable” privateness issues associated to CAT, Prepare dinner stated, it’s “by no means to late to do the suitable factor. Simply because we’re there now doesn’t imply we are able to’t say, ‘Possibly we went too far. Let’s return and gather much less information and actually shrink the footprint of that.’”
CAT Funding
By way of CAT funding, FINRA was “disenchanted that the SEC authorized the funding mannequin that got here out,” Prepare dinner defined. “We had commented once more it a number of instances; we don’t suppose it’s the suitable allocation of the prices of CAT.”
