# 2026-19620: SEC Extends Stock Trade Data Collection for Market Transparency

2026-19620, Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension: Rule 613 of Regulation NMS, is a Federal Register notice from Securities and Exchange Commission published 2026-09-25; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-02).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-19620
- As of: 2026-10-02
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2026-19620
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Extension: Rule 613 of Regulation NMS
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Securities and Exchange Commission
- Citation: 91 FR 61004
- Published: 2026-09-25
- Effective: unknown
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-10-02

## In one line

SEC Extends Stock Trade Data Collection for Market Transparency

## Summary

The SEC is asking to keep collecting info under Rule 613, which helps track stock trades through a big, shared system called the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). This affects stock exchanges and associations who must keep sharing trade data to keep markets fair and transparent. No new costs or deadlines are added, just an extension to keep this important system running smoothly.

## Effects PRIA read

- Continued CAT reporting requirement: cost, high. The SEC has requested OMB approval to extend the existing information-collection under Rule 613 that requires national securities exchanges, one national securities association, and broker-dealers to submit trade and order data to the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). The notice says 27 Participants…
- Estimated annual burden and cost: cost, high. The Commission estimates the Rule 613/CAT information collection requires about 4,122,488 hours per year across respondents and an aggregate annual compliance cost of approximately $384,727,051. These totals are presented as the projected annual burden tied to the extended information collection.
- Improves regulator market surveillance: benefit, medium. The CAT NMS Plan is described as improving data quality in four areas — completeness, accuracy, accessibility, and timeliness — which the Commission says substantially improves regulators' ability to analyze and reconstruct market events and perform market surveillance, examinations, investigations…
- Removal of certain personal data and shorter retention: benefit, low. The notice states the Commission has issued exemptive relief and approved amendments that have enabled SROs to remove certain customer and account-level personally identifying information (for example, social security numbers/ITINs, dates of birth, account numbers, names, addresses, years of birth,…

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## Sources
- [2026-19620 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/09/25/2026-19620/agency-information-collection-activities-submission-for-omb-review-comment-request-extension-rule)
- [2026-19620 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-09-25/pdf/2026-19620.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2026-19620 (as of 2026-10-02).