Securities Information Processor Law and Legal Definition
According to 15 USCS § 78c (22) (A), the term securities information processor means “any person engaged in the business of (i) collecting, processing, or preparing for distribution or publication, or assisting, participating in, or coordinating the distribution or publication of, information with respect to transactions in or quotations for any security (other than an exempted security) or (ii) distributing or publishing (whether by means of a ticker tape, a communications network, a terminal display device, or otherwise) on a current and continuing basis, information with respect to such transactions or quotations. The term "securities information processor" does not include any bona fide newspaper, news magazine, or business or financial publication of general and regular circulation, any self-regulatory organization, any bank, broker, dealer, building and loan, savings and loan, or homestead association, or cooperative bank, if such bank, broker, dealer, association, or cooperative bank would be deemed to be a securities information processor solely by reason of functions performed by such institutions as part of customary banking, brokerage, dealing, association, or cooperative bank activities, or any common carrier, as defined in section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 [47 USCS § 153], subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission or a State commission, as defined in section 3 of that Act [47 USCS § 153], unless the Commission determines that such carrier is engaged in the business of collecting, processing, or preparing for distribution or publication, information with respect to transactions in or quotations for any security.
(B) The term "exclusive processor" means any securities information processor or self-regulatory organization which, directly or indirectly, engages on an exclusive basis on behalf of any national securities exchange or registered securities association, or any national securities exchange or registered securities association which engages on an exclusive basis on its own behalf, in collecting, processing, or preparing for distribution or publication any information with respect to (i) transactions or quotations on or effected or made by means of any facility of such exchange or (ii) quotations distributed or published by means of any electronic system operated or controlled by such association.”
Legal Definition list
- Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC)
- Securities Fraud
- Securities Exchange Act of 1934
- Securities Dispute Resolution
- Securities Contract
- Securities Information Processor
- Securities Intermediary
- Securities Investor Protection Act
- Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)
- Securities Laws
- Securities Lending
Related Legal Terms
- Access to Classified Information (Military)
- Actively Traded Securities
- Adequate Information
- Adjustment Securities
- Affiliated Persons (Securities)
- Agency Sales Ticket (Securities)
- Agency Transaction (Securities)
- Amendment of Information
- American Federation of Information Processing Societies
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
