Dec
2
2024
News
FINRA API & WEBEFT Schedule During CRD Renewals Processing 2024-2025
As in previous years, FINRA systems will have adjusted availability schedules during final renewals processing. The impacts to the WebEFT and Registration API Query and Submission Datasets are listed below.
FINRA API
- Thursday, December 26, 2024
- Submission processing stops at 6 p.m. (ET). Submissions received after this time will resume processing on January 2, 2025 5 AM.
- Friday, December 27, 2024 through Tuesday, December 31, 2024
- APIs are accessible but most will contain data as of December 26.
- Only data that will continue to get updated are Annual CE and IAR CE
- Saturday, December 27, 2024 – Thursday, January 1, 2025
- Composite Individual Seed file requests made between December 27, 2024 and January 1, 2025 will not be immediately processed. To avoid duplicate file requests, we recommend NOT requesting any seed files during this time.
- Wednesday, January 1, 2025
- Final renewal processing will complete by EOD on January 1, 2025
- Thursday, January 2, 2025
- First recommended date to resume requesting Composite Individual Seed files. Due to the anticipated volume, files requested between December 27, 2024 and January 2, 2025 will be available by January 4, 2025 morning.
- FINRA will resume processing API submissions.
- All Registration Query datasets will have real-time data starting on January 2 and our recommendation is to resume calling the datasets as of that date.
WebEFT
- Thursday, December 26, 2024
- WebEFT Upload processing stops at 6 p.m. (ET). Uploads received after this time will not be processed until Tuesday, January 2
- Friday, December 27, 2024
- All reports available at the usual time with data from December 26
- Saturday, December 28, 2024 through Tuesday, December 31, 2024
- Pause in daily generation of most XML reports, only reports continuing to generate with new data are Post Annual CE and Post IAR CE
- Wednesday, January 1, 2025
- Generate one BIR and one Delta IIR by 6 p.m. (ET) with all year-end data from December 27-31, for example:
- BranchInformationReport_2025-01-01
- IndividualInformationReport_2025-01-01
- Generate separate daily posting reports by 6 p.m. (ET) with all year-end data from December 27-31. Many files may be empty; however we recommend processing all files to ensure all data is received. For example:
- PostAppointmentsReport_2024-12-27
- PostAppointmentsReport_2024-12-28
- PostAppointmentsReport_2024-12-29
- PostAppointmentsReport_2024-12-30
- PostAppointmentsReport_2024-12-31
- Generate one BIR and one Delta IIR by 6 p.m. (ET) with all year-end data from December 27-31, for example:
- Thursday, January 2, 2025
- Resume processing XML uploads
- Resume generating daily Web EFT reports (CE reports continue generating)