The funding model of the consolidated audit trail (CAT), an SEC database for all equity and options trades on US exchanges, has been struck down by the Eleventh US Circuit Court of Appeals.
The decision rescinds an SEC rule that its critics contended would have compelled America’s broker-dealers to pay
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