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21 September, 2026

FIF Chicago Event

21 September, 2026

FIF is excited to announce our annual Chicago event, sponsored by Cboe Global Markets. After opening remarks from Keith Petersen, VP of Market Data, there will be an equities panel and an options/futures panel. The equities panel will focus on topics such as Rule 611, Rule 605, CAT and overnight trading. The options/futures panel will focus on potential topics such as: extended hours trading in options, single stock futures, prediction markets, OPRA dynamic rebalance symbol distribution, crypto options and binary options. The equities panel will be moderated by Tom Jordan of Jordan & Jordan and will include panelists: Gregg Berman of Citadel Securities, Tom Hochleutner of Clear Street and Barry Metzger of DriveWealth. The options/futures panel will be moderated by Derek Lacarrubba of DASH Financial and will include panelists: Patrick Coicou of Cboe Global Markets, Mark Lanctot of Robinhood and Ben Londergan of Simplex Trading. The event will take place on Tuesday October 6th at Cboe's offices at 433 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60607. Registration in the lobby begins at 2pm CT, the speaking engagement will be from 3-4:30pm CT with refreshments and networking afterwards from 4:30-6pm CT. FIF would like to thank Cboe Global Markets for sponsoring this event. FIF Members may register for free here (sign in the site first, then register), non-members who are interested in attending may contact the program office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..