SEC 17a-3 - Records to be Made by Certain Exchange Members

Requires broker-dealers to make certain records, including trade blotters, asset and liability ledgers, income ledgers, customer account ledgers, securities records, order tickets, trade confirmations, trial balances and various employment related documents.

Rule 17a-3 is commonly grouped with SEC Rule 14a-4. Together, these rules require:

• Written, enforceable retention policies
• A searchable index of all data stored
• Viewable and readily retrievable data
• Offsite storage of data
• Storage of data on WORM (write once ready many) optical media

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