Invoice
Trade Details
CAT Fees/CAT Fee Alerts
FAQs
Final Jeopardy
100

The three methods of payment accepted for a CAT Invoice

What are Check, ACH or Bank Wire?

100

The two methods in which firms can access the Trade Details Files

What is via the CAT Reporter Portal and SFTP?

100

CAT Fee 2024-1 established this type of CAT fee

What are Prospective CAT Fees?

100

When payment is due for a CAT Invoice

What is within 30 calendar days of the date on the invoice?

100

The information that will be housed in a new "Documents" tab being added to the Invoice section of the CAT Reporter Portal. 

What are CAT Billing Documents - W-9 and Bank Account Verification Letter?

200

The first time IMs and PPs will see late fees on their CAT Invoices

What is the November 2024 invoice published on December 26, 2024?

200

The two types of trades listed in the Trade Details files

On-exchange (Rec Type = Exchange) and Off-exchange Trades (Rec Type = TRF) trades

200

CAT Fee 2024-2 established this type of CAT Fee

What is Historical CAT Fee 1?

200

CAT Prospective Fees are reviewed on this interval

What is every 6 months?

300

The time that a CAT Invoice will remain available in the CAT Reporter Portal

What is 24 months?

300

According to our standard CAT Invoice publishing announcement, this is the time that Trade Details are published by 

What is 7 p.m. ET

300

The Fee Rate for this type of CAT Fee is calculated by dividing applicable historical CAT costs by the projected total executed equivalent share volume for the projected recovery period, which can be 2 -5 years

What are Historical CAT Assessment Fees?

300

This type of Invoice is referred to as an "Audit Trail Reimbursement Invoice" and lists a Fee Rate of 0.000017

What is a FINRA SRO pass-through fee invoice?

400

The two types of fees listed on the CAT Invoice

What are Prospective CAT Fees and Historical Assessment 1 Fees

400

The newest field added to the Trade Details schema. Also used by firms to calculate the total executed equivalent share count inclusive of any adjustments.

What is Net Executed Equivalent Shares?

400

CAT Fee 2025-1, communicated in CAT Fee Alert 2024-3, is replacing this CAT Fee

What is CAT Fee 2024-1 (Prospective CAT Fees)

400

The number of Executed Equivalent Shares for:

1. 1 share of NMS Stock

2. 1 share of OTC Stock

3. 1 listed Option Contract 

What is 

1. 1

2. 0.01

3. 100

500

The three different ways that Executed Equivalent Share Volume is broken down on page 2 of the CAT Invoice

What is Product, Side and Execution Venue?

500

The time that Trade Details files will remain available via the CAT Reporter Portal and SFTP

What is 90 days?

500

Beginning with the January 2025 Invoice, which will be published on February 25, 2025, the Fee Rate for Prospective CAT Fees is expected to change from $0.000035 to this new fee rate.

What is $0.000022?

500

The definition of "CAT Executing Broker" for CAT Billing purposes

For On-exchange trades - The IMs identified by the exchange as being responsible for the buy and sell sides of the trade

For Off-exchange trades - The IM identified as the executing and contra executing broker on the trade report reported to a FINRA TRF