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 panelists will be announced soon, registration is open though, so secure your spot today by registering here. 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, non-members who are interested in attending may contact the program office at fifinfo@fif.com. 

On August 17, FIF submitted a comment letter on the SEC rule proposal to rescind the trade through rule and the Reg NMS provisions relating to locking and crossing of quotations. FIF would like to thank the members of the Equity Market Regulations Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.

The next call for the 24x7 Trading Working Group will be on Monday August 24 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss recent updates from the exchanges relating to order entry, testing and data feeds, the SEC approval of price band protections, expanded TRF operating hours, tracking open issues, and key  challenges faced by market participants for the December 6 live date.

The Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday August 25 at 11 am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Equity Market Regulations Working Group for Tuesday August 25 at 1 pm ET to continue the discussion of FINRA Regulatory Notice 26-15 on modernizing FINRA’s best execution guidance.