Buyside traders confused by new New York Stock Exchange rules designed to make it easier for broker-dealers to trade along with their orders received some solace late last year.
NYSE Regulation sent out a memo to its members clarifying a change it made to Rule 92 last summer. Rule 92 bars brokers from trading along with their institutional customers’ orders. There are exceptions, though, and in those cases, the brokers must obtain consent from the money manager.
Until last summer, brokers had to obtain consent on an order-by-order basis. NYSE Reg’s changes, though, liberalized the rule. Brokers can now request blanket consent from a customer covering all of the customer’s trade-along orders. Brokers no longer have to ask for permission each time they trade alongside their customer.
The recent memo noted that a broker’s customer can still give its consent on an order-by-order basis if it chooses.
Whichever method is used, the broker must keep records stating the contact name at the money manager and the percentage split of a trade-along order.
If blanket consent is used, the percentage split must be the same for every trade.
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