Order Protection Rule

FIF has scheduled two calls for this week for the Equity Market Regulations Working Group to continue discussion of a draft FIF comment letter in response to the SEC rule proposal to rescind Rules 611 (the order protection rule) and 610(e) (locking or crossing quotations). The first call is scheduled for Tuesday July 21 at 2 pm ET; the second call is scheduled for Thursday July 23 at 1 pm ET.

POSTED Jul 20,2026

Regulatory Implementations Calendar

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the SEC FINRA Regulations Working Group and the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group for Wednesday July 22 at 11 am ET. The Workings Groups will review an updated Regulatory Implementations Presentation and Calendar, including updates on the following topics: overnight regulatory halts for corporate actions; FINRA rule filing to extend the TRF operating hours to 23x5; Options Regulatory Fee; Treasury clearing; tokenized equities; Financial Data Transparency Act; and Trump accounts.

POSTED Jul 20,2026

CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT Reference Database Working Groups

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT Reference Database Working Groups for Wednesday July 22 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue discussion of reporting for the tradingSession field and reporting of derived values that are problematic for Industry Members.

POSTED Jul 20,2026

Data & Technology Committee

The Data & Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday July 29 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 Sun Kim and Dana Rutherford of Nasdaq MRX, who will discuss the recent SEC approval of Nasdaq MRX’s rule filing for extended trading hours for eligible equity and index options.

POSTED Jul 20,2026

FIF Webinar on Trade Surveillance

FIF has scheduled a webinar on Trade Surveillance for Thursday July 30 at 4 pm ET. The moderator for the webinar will be Scott Trilling of Fidelity. The panelists will be Ben Calev of BXS, Mark Davies of S3, Chris Montagnino of Jordan & Jordan, and Ted Karn of The Karn Group. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group for this webinar. If you would like to submit any questions for the webinar to be raised anonymously, please send them to fifinfo@fif.com.

POSTED Jul 20,2026

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