FINRA and ISG Extend the Effective Date for Certain Electronic Blue Sheet Data Elements (Regulatory Notice 13-38)

FINRA and the other U.S. members of the Intermarket Surveillance Group ("ISG members") announced that the effective date for compliance with certain new data elements for Electronic Blue Sheets ("EBS") identified in Regulatory Notice 13-16 has been extended to May 1, 2014. FINRA and the other ISG members have also extended the effective date for compliance with certain other data elements to be consistent with the exemptive relief provided by the SEC, which extended the compliance date for certain broker-dealer recordkeeping and reporting requirements of Exchange Act Rule 13h-1("Large Trader Reporting") from November 1, 2013 to November 1, 2015.

See: FINRA Regulatory Notice 13-38.