CAT Interim Reporting Obligation Delayed

On November 22, 2022 FINRA CAT announced updates to the interim reporting obligation schedule outlined in CAT Alert 2022-01. This delays the Interim Reporting Obligation 4 from December 5,2022 to March 10, 2023 as well as the Full Compliance date from December 12, 2022 to March 17, 2023.

Interim Obligation 1 – No change
Interim Obligation 2 – No change
Interim Obligation 3 – No change
Interim Obligation 4 – Moved from December 5, 2022 to March 10, 2023
Full Compliance Go-Live – Moved from December 12, 2022 to March 17, 2023

Another substantial part of this announcement is a delay to the FDID validation between CAT Transaction data and CAIS, as well as fully disabling the nightly data inconsistency feedback files. Both validations are expected to be enabled again sometime in January of 2023.

The plan provider has recently experienced significant pushback from the participants and Industry Members related to the above validations, feedback files and information provided on the FINRA CAT portal.

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