Subpoena

A subpoena compels the production of documents or testimony. In market cases the critical productions are usually order data and communications, which is why retention obligations matter so much.

compliance and practice · updated 2026-09-08

See also

• Recordkeeping — Recordkeeping obligations require firms to preserve business communications in a retrievable form. Enforcement against the use of …
• Trade reconstruction — Trade reconstruction rebuilds the complete state of a market and a trader's activity at a given instant, from order messages, comm…

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