The national securities exchanges and FINRA (collectively, the self-regulatory organizations, or SROs) have selected six bids from the list of ten RFP responses that were submitted to build and maintain the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). The six bids that have been selected for shortlisting are listed below in alphabetical order:
- AxiomSL and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
- EPAM Systems, Inc.
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
- J. Streicher Analytics on behalf of the CATPRO Consortium: Hewlett Packard, Booz Allen, Buckley Sandler
- SunGard Data Systems Inc.
- Thesys Technologies, LLC
“We would like to thank all parties who submitted a bid for this important effort,” said John Zecca, Senior Vice President of NASDAQ on behalf of the SROs. “We will continue to consult with industry representatives and the trading community to develop the infrastructure to support this regulatory system, which is being designed to enhance the oversight of our markets.”
Additional information, including the planned timeline for the CAT NMS Plan is available atwww.catnmsplan.com.
