FIF is excited to announce our annual Chicago event, sponsored by Cboe Global Markets. After opening remarks from Kevin Carrai of Cboe, there will be two panels, one focusing on options trading and market  developments and the other focusing on market data and technology. For the options trading and market developments panel, the panelists will be Gregg Berman of Citadel, Andy Bevers of Cboe, Ellen Greene of IMC, and Ben Londergan of Simplex Trading. For the market data and technology panel, the moderator will be Tom Jordan of Jordan & Jordan, and the panelists will be James Calise of Oracle, Arnaud Derasse of Exegy, Raymond Tsui of SS&C, and Jeff Wells of Cboe. The event will take place on Monday October 6th at Cboe's offices at 433 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60607. Registration in the lobby begins at 2 pm CT. The speaking engagement will be from 3-4:30 pm CT, with refreshments and networking afterwards from 4:30-6 pm CT. FIF would like to thank Cboe Global Markets for sponsoring this event. Please register here to secure your spot. FIF events are free to attend for FIF Members. If you have any questions, please contact fifinfo@fif.com.

FIF has scheduled two calls for the SLATE Working Group for this week. The first call will be on Monday September 22 at 11 am ET; the second call will be on Thursday September 25 at 11 am. FIF members will provide an update on recent discussions with FINRA to address challenges with SLATE reporting, as currently designed. The Working Group will also review a draft FIF letter to the SEC and FINRA relating to cumulative end-of-day reporting and other SLATE-reporting issues.  

On Monday September 22 at 1 pm ET, Ignacio Sandoval will review the six-month rulemaking agenda recently published by the SEC. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group and the SEC FINRA Regulations Working Group to participate on this call.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the Data and Technology Committee and the Equity Market Regulations Working Group for Monday September 22 at 2 pm ET. The Committee and Working Group will (i) continue the review and discussion of the documentation published by SIAC and the UTP relating to odd-lot data being added to the SIP market data feeds, and (ii) review the first draft of an FIF letter in support of the request for exemption by the SIPs to extend the implementation date for the reporting of depth-of-book odd lot quotes by the SIP Plan Participants. 

The Data & Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday September 24 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 presenter will be Phil Mackintosh of Nasdaq, who will discuss extended-hours trading.