https://www.sec.gov/about/divisions-offices/division-trading-markets/rule-613-consolidated-audit-trail
The Commission adopted Rule 613 to create a comprehensive consolidated audit trail that would allow regulators to efficiently and accurately track all activity ...Read more
https://www.catnmsplan.com/
About CAT. On July 11, 2012, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt Rule 613 under Regulation NMS requiring the national ...Read more
https://investors.caterpillar.com/financials/sec-filings/default.aspx
CAT Financial SEC Filings. Click here for Caterpillar Inc. SEC Filings. select year. Select year: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 ...Read more
https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025-127-sec-issues-order-reduce-operating-costs-consolidated-audit-trail
Sep 30, 2025 — CAT must be more efficient and cost-effective, especially after the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that ...Read more
https://www.waterstechnology.com/regulation/7952407/exchanges-plead-with-sec-to-trim-cat-reporting-requirements
May 19, 2025 — Letters from Cboe, Nasdaq and NYSE ask that the new Atkins administration reduce the amount of data required for the Consolidated Audit Trail, and scrap ...Read m
https://quickreads.ext.katten.com/post/102l7n9/declawing-the-cat-sec-trims-back-audit-trail-obligations
Oct 1, 2025 — Changes to Late Data Processing. The SEC also modified how the CAT handles late-reported data. The SEC ended the “Full Replay” process, which ...Read more
https://www.finra.org/media-center/blog/cat-should-be-modified-to-cease-collecting-personal-information-on-retail-investors
Jan 17, 2025 — The Consolidated Audit Trail, or CAT, is an SEC-mandated reporting system that collects data regarding trading in the U.S. equities and options ...Read more
https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/251008-u-s-sec-relaxes-cat-requirements
Oct 8, 2025 — The Order grants relief to the Plan Processor from providing Participants and the SEC with access to processed CAT data through certain OTQT ...Read more
https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/atkins-093025-consolidated-audit-trail-new-day-cat
Sep 30, 2025 — When the CAT was established, in November 2016, its ongoing annual costs were estimated to total, at the upper end, about $55 million.[1] ...Read more
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2016/07/16/consolidated-audit-trail-the-cats-out-of-the-bag/
Jul 16, 2016 — The SEC recently released a plan to establish a Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), one of the world's largest data repositories that will ...
https://www.sifma.org/news/blog/a-safer-cat-for-investors
Apr 25, 2024 — The SEC-mandated Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) is scheduled to become fully operational on May 31, 2024. It will be the largest database of ...Read more
https://www.sidley.com/en/insights/newsupdates/2025/08/eleventh-circuit-vacates-secs-2023-funding-order-for-the-consolidated-audit-trail-cat
Aug 13, 2025 — When CAT was approved in 2016, the SEC projected its build costs between $37.5 million and $65 million and annual operating costs of $36.5 ...Read more
https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/crenshaw-statement-consolidated-audit-trail-021025
Feb 10, 2025 — The CAT was designed to address outdated regulatory infrastructure by improving the completeness, accuracy, accessibility, and timeliness of data needed to ...Rea
https://bettermarkets.org/analysis/the-sec-must-not-kill-the-cat/
Oct 1, 2025 — The SEC must not kill the CAT. Without the CAT, it will be easier for financial firms to break the law and harder for the SEC to oversee the ...Read more
https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/guidance/reports/2024-finra-annual-regulatory-oversight-report/cat
CAT Rules, which cover reporting to the CAT; clock synchronization; time stamps; connectivity and data transmission; development and testing; recordkeeping.Read more
https://catnmsplan.com/about-cat/cat-nms-plan
On December 17, 2025, CAT LLC filed with the SEC a proposed amendment to the CAT NMS Plan to implement certain cost savings initiatives. The proposed changes to ...Read more
https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025-38
Feb 10, 2025 — Today's exemptive order eliminates the requirement to report names, addresses, and years of birth for any US natural person who trades in the stock market.Read mor
https://cei.org/blog/victory-for-liberty-11th-circuit-vacates-secs-unjust-cat-funding-rule/
Jul 28, 2025 — The CAT is a centralized database created at the SEC's command to collect detailed information about every securities trade in the United States ...Read more
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepFuckingValue/comments/1kqggpb/sec_considering_scrapping_the_cat_system_retail/
Are you KIDDING me?! The SEC is now floating the idea of SCRAPPING the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) — the one system built to ensure ...Read more