A joint notice from the Investment Dealers Association of Canada and CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc. spells out how brokers can comply with new rules regarding institutional trades and broker to broker trades.

“Although these regulations for institutional trades and broker to broker trades are different and should not be confused, they are discussed together in this joint notice, because the IDA has received numerous questions from its members to clarify whether particular trades are client (institutional trades) or broker to broker trades for the purpose of these regulations,” the notice says.

The notice reviews a number of examples of institutional trades and broker to broker trades in order to clarify the codes that firms should use for each trade, when there is a possibility that another code could be mistakenly used.

“Although our goal is to provide you with examples of trades that you will likely face with this code issue, there will be situations where the code to use is unclear for a particular trade, and you and the other parties to the trade must work together to resolve this issue in a timely manner,” it notes.