FIF has scheduled a webinar on Trade Surveillance for Wednesday July 23 at 2 pm ET. The moderator for the panel will be Holly Dito of Daiwa. The panelists will be Ted Karn of The Karn Group, Derek Lacarrubba of the K&L Gates law firm, Chris Montagnino of Jordan and Jordan, and Jeremy Vest of S3. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group to participate on this call. If you have any topics or questions that you would like to submit anonymously for this webinar, please send them to fifinfo@fif.com.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Section 31 Fees subgroup for Thursday July 24 at 2 pm ET. The subgroup will discuss a discrepancy as to whether Section 31 fees are charged based on trade date or settlement date. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of this subgroup, please send a note to fifinfo@fif.com, and we will include you in this discussion.

FIF is pleased to announce our first ever Boston event. The live, in-person event will take place on September 2nd from 5-8pm ET at the Fidelity Investments offices. The event will be co-sponsored by Fidelity Capital Markets andLeveL Markets, LLC. Panel topics and speakers will be announced soon. Space is limited, so secure your spot now by registering here.

On June 30, FIF submitted a letter to the SEC discussing the implementation of short position reporting. FIF would like to thank the members of the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

The next call for the 24x7 Trading Working Group will be on Monday July 7 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of implementation issues relating to the planned expansion of exchange trading hours for US equities. If you are interested in participating in this discussion and are not a member of this Working Group, please update your FIF profile to add this Working Group or send a note to fifinfo@fif.com.