The Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday July 22 at 11 am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the Rule 605 and Rule 606 Working Groups for Tuesday July 22 at 3 pm ET. The Working Groups will discuss a draft Rule 605 Fact Sheet prepared by an FIF member and issues and questions from FIF members relating to Rules 605 and 606. 

FIF has scheduled two calls for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group for this week. The first call will be on Wednesday July 23 at 1 pm ET; during the first call, the Working Group will discuss potential amendments to SEC Rule 613 and the CAT NMS Plan to reduce CAT costs. The second call will be on Thursday July 24 at 11 am; during the second call, the Working Group will discuss a revised draft of the FIF request for permanent exemption relating to representative order linkage. 

FIF has scheduled a webinar on Trade Surveillance for Wednesday July 23 at 2 pm ET. The moderator for the webinar 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.