FIF Webinar on Electronic Communications Compliance

FIF has scheduled a webinar on Electronic Communications Compliance for Tuesday May 19 at 2 pm ET. The moderator for the webinar will be Holly Dito of Daiwa. The panelists will be Meredith Abrams of the Simpson Thacher law firm, Thoreau Bartmann of the K&L Gates law firm, Rajni Chidambaram of Interactive Brokers, and Donald McElligott of Global Relay. 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 May 18,2026

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 May 20 at 11 am ET. The Workings Groups will continue the  review of an updated Regulatory Implementations Presentation and Calendar, including updates on the following topics: Consolidated Audit Trail; Rule 605 amendments; new equity and options exchanges and new clearing agencies; OPRA Dynamic Load Rebalancing; FICC cross-margining with CME; TRACE reporting; tokenized securities; and Trump accounts.

POSTED May 18,2026

Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group for Thursday May 21 at 1 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss the first draft of an FIF comment letter on the rule filing by FINRA to amend short interest reporting (FINRA Rule 4560; proposed FINRA Rule 4321). 

POSTED May 18,2026

Rule 605 Working Group

The Rule 605 Working Group will have its next call on Monday May 11 at 1 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of issues and questions relating to the Rule 605 amendments that will take effect on August 1.

POSTED May 11,2026

FINRA Margin Rule Amendments; FINRA Proposed Amendments to Short-Interest Reporting

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group and the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group for Monday May 11 at 2 pm ET. The Working Groups will discuss (i) the SEC’s approval of amendments to FINRA’s margin rules (FINRA Rule 4210), and (ii) the rule filing by FINRA to amend Short-Interest Reporting (FINRA Rule 4560; proposed FINRA Rule 4321). 

POSTED May 11,2026

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