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05/05/2026
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X18. How must Industry Members report an FDID Record to the Reference Database when a disregarded entity and its parent company have the same Employer Identification Number (EIN) and are both CAT Customers associated to the same FDID? Does the reporting requirement change if the disregarded entity has a different EIN from its parent company?

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05/05/2026
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X2. Is an Industry Member permitted to submit a CAT Customer’s Sensitive Identifier, name, address, date of birth or account number to the Reference Database?

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05/05/2026
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X11. What CAT Customer information should be reported to the CAT when a legal entity (an “entity authorized trader” for purposes of this FAQ only) - such as a registered investment adviser or a bank trust department - is authorized to provide trading instructions for an account, and the Industry Member receives trading instructions for the account from a natural person who is employed by the entity authorized trader and who is authorized to trade for that account on behalf of the entity authorized trader? For the purposes of this FAQ, neither the entity authorized trader nor the employee authorized to trade for the account on behalf of the entity authorized trader is an account holder for the account at issue.

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05/05/2026
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X6. Following the closure of an account and the associated FDID being ended in the Reference Database, is an Industry Member required to re-activate the FDID in the Reference Database for non-CAT reportable entries, such as delayed dividend payments?

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05/05/2026
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X17. How must a CAT Customer’s tidValue (“TID value”) be generated when the CAT Customer does not have a US-assigned Input Identifier but has more than one foreign Input Identifier of a specific type– such as multiple Tax Identifiers or multiple Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI)?

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05/05/2026
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X10. What date should Industry Members use to populate the “end date” fields (e.g., fdidEndDate, roleEndDate) when an event has triggered the closure of an account? For example, when a minor reaches the age of majority for a custodial account (e.g., UGMA/UTMA) or upon the death of an account holder for a beneficiary account, how should Industry Members populate these fields?

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05/05/2026
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X5. When reporting a piggyback clearing scenario to the Reference Database, which Industry Member’s CRD number must the clearing firm populate in the correspondentCRD field when Firm A is piggybacking off of Firm B’s relationship with the clearing firm?

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05/05/2026
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X16. How must an FDID Record be reported to the Reference Database when the account holder is a foreign trust or foreign estate where an allowable Input Identifier value does not exist because the foreign country or foreign municipality does not require or issue any kind of identifier for the foreign trust or foreign estate, and no such other allowable Input Identifier exists? For example, the foreign trust or foreign estate has no associated Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), and is also not assigned any National Registration or Tax Identifier, or any other governmental-issued identifier by a non-national level government body or agency, such as a corporate registry.

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05/05/2026
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X9. Are regulators expecting complete accuracy with respect to the roleEndReason field?

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