The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest independent regulator of securities firms in the United States. It oversees brokerage firms, registered representatives, and exchange operations, ensuring that the U.S. securities industry operates fairly, transparently, and in the best interest of investors.
FINRA’s mission is to protect investors and uphold market integrity by enforcing compliance with securities laws, promoting ethical conduct, and supervising trading activity across U.S. markets.
Market data is available via several FINRA feeds, including:
- BTDS (Bond Trade Dissemination Service) – Corporate bond trades
- ATDS (Agency Trade Dissemination Service) – Agency debt trades
- 144A – Transactions in private placements under SEC Rule 144A
- SPDS (Securitized Products Dissemination Service) – ABS and MBS trade data
This data is accessible through ICE Connect (including ICE XL) and APIs, supporting monitoring, regulatory reporting, and enterprise integration.
Specifications
Key Features
For clients looking to access normalized data the ICE Consolidated Feed provides functionality that allows for seamless application programming, using proprietary symbology that is easy to consume, human-readable and based on exchange tickers. Reference data fields are presented in a consistent format with popular fields such as Instrument Types, Marketplace Codes and Instrument Names available in both ICE proprietary and native exchange format. Additional third-party identifiers, such as CUSIP & ISIN are also available (note that some may require separate licensing).
Covering both individual instrument status (normal/halted/suspended) and market phase (auction/continuous/etc.), the ICE Consolidated Feed presents status as a globally consistent set of values, while also maintaining a separate set of fields with the native exchange presentation. Including both native exchange timestamps in their original time zone and granularity, and ICE system timestamps in UTC, gives clients flexibility and choice, that carries through to the tick-by-tick files provided by ICE Consolidated History.
- Quality of service: This data set ensures high-quality, real-time market data with minimal latency and maximum uptime.
- Feed type: FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority)data is available in native format or normalized via the ICE Consolidated Feed
- Normalization: Data is provided with ICE proprietary symbology, UTC timestamps, and globally consistent normalized values for critical fields such as instrument status, alongside native exchange values, for seamless application programming
Products
Buy-side and sell-side front offices continue to embrace more data and more technology in order to expand their opportunities and gain an edge over the competition. Enrich front office systems with ICE’s Data API solution, providing intraday access to fixed income pricing, on-demand analytics, reference data and more.
ICE Consolidated Feed is ICE’s Resilient, distributed and normalized Market data solution: providing Realtime access to Level 1,2 & 3 Market Data, News and Fundamental datasets through zero-footprint and throughput optimized API and connectivity options.
ICE Consolidated History is ICE’s Bulk History Offering: providing incremental updates and direct access to ICE’s archive of up to 15 years of tick-by-tick Level 1,2 and 3 historical tick level Market Data.
ICE Connect brings together access to cutting-edge trading tools with real-time cross-asset data, global news, and analytics all on one platform. Whatever your role, our platform can be tailored to your workflow for optimal efficiency.