The next call for the TRACE / RTRS Working Group will be on Tuesday April 29 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss current challenges with reporting factors to TRACE and a proposal from an FIF member to address this issue.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the Rule 605 and Rule 606 Working Groups for Tuesday April 29 at 3 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss draft FAQs relating to Rule 606(a) reporting to submit to the SEC. The Working Group will also discuss a draft FIF comment letter on proposed FINRA Rule 6152, which provides for centralized reporting of Rule 605 reports to FINRA.

The Data and Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday April 30 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets. The spotlight presenters will be Henry Schwartz and Maggie White of Cboe, who will discuss options market data.

FIF wants to thank the attendees of the FIF Event on 4/8. The strong panels and the beautiful venue made for a great evening. The regulatory panel covered a lot of content in a short amount of time and showed how the industry’s willingness to collaborate on these initiatives is beneficial for all. The technology panel taking place at AWS, it was the perfect place to have a discussion on the cloud, importance of low latency, the current digital asset landscape, GEN AI and extended hours trading. Timely topics on both panels. It was great catching up with all of you in the networking section of the event and look forward to continuing this collaboration in our working groups going forward. Please find event photos here. FIF would like to thank Susan Crozier, Adrian Griffiths, Jonah Platt, Krista Ryan, Alex Mirarchi, Andrew Oppenheimer, Shawn Sloves and David Taylor for taking the time to participate on our panels. If your firm is not a FIF Member and you would like to get involved in this community, please reach out to fifinfo@fif.com.

On April 9, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC in response to the rule filing by the CAT Plan Participants to remove PII from CAT. FIF would like to thank the members of the CAT CAIS and CAT Transaction Reporting Working Groups for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.