Meeting with FINRA CAT on CAIS; submissions to FINRA CAT

On February 5 FIF and the FIF CAIS Working Group Co-Chairs participated in a meeting with FINRA CAT to discuss the creation of an industry working group to address issues relating to customer identifiers as FINRA CAT starts to move forward toward implementation of CAIS. On February 3 FIF submitted comments and questions to FINRA CAT relating to the CAT transaction-reporting system and CAIS based on issues raised by FIF Members. For the upcoming week, FIF will review the updates to the Technical Specification and Reporting Scenario documents published by FINRA CAT on February 5.