FIF has scheduled the next call for the TRACE Working Group for Thursday December 19 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of the implementation of one-minute reporting and the new manual trade indicator.

Last week FIF held one of its largest events ever at the offices of Societe Generale. After opening remarks from Michael Walsh of Société Générale, there were two fantastic panels. The first panel, on Regulatory Implementation Challenges for 2025, featured Vaibhav Bang of Société Générale, Tom Hochleutner of Clear Street, Ian Park of n-Tier fs and Jacki VanMoer of Goldman Sachs. The second panel, on Retail Trading and Expanded Trading Hours, featured Matt Billings of Robinhood, Gary Goldsholle of Charles Schwab, Venu Palaparthi of DriveWealth and Kevin Tyrrell of NYSE. FIF would like to thank Société Générale for hosting this event and n-Tier fs for sponsoring. Please follow the link to this article to see some photos from event night. 

On December 2, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC in support of the rule filing by the CAT Plan Participants to reduce CAT operating costs. FIF would like to thank the members of the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.

On December 6, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC in support of the proposed plan amendment by the CAT Plan Participants to permanently exempt verbal pre-order communications from CAT reporting. FIF would like to thank the members of the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group for Monday December 9 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will continue to discuss the implementation of short position reporting.