March 21, 2024Technical Notice 24-004

Montreal Exchange Launch of New Format of PAR Reports April 2nd 2024

Bourse de Montréal Inc. (the "Bourse") hereby announces that it will be launching a new version of PAR (Participant Activity Reports) on Tuesday April 2nd 2024, and decommissioning the Old Format of the reports on Close of Business June 28th 2024. The main change to the report layout will be new enumeration values added to the Instrument Type value (Equity) in the Instrument Records Layout, and a new Market Flow Indicator in the Instrument Preview Record Layout (DE, DX, DC)

 

Approved Participants using the current formatted are encouraged to upgrade to the Revised format by the decommission dates indicated below.

 

Decommission Schedule:

 

Decommissioned Report Reportno longer available as of Version Upgrade
PAR Report 1.7+ Version June 28th, 2024 PAR Report 1.8 Version

 

Documentation for the new version of PAR Reports https://www.tmxwebstore.com/.

 

Please direct any questions, comments or requests for additional information to our Technical Help Desk.

 

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