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 fifinfo@fif.com. 

The Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday September 22 at 11 am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges.

The TRACE Working Group will have its next call on Tuesday September 22 at 1 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss a draft FIF letter to the SEC relating to implementation of the expansion of the TRACE Affiliate – Principal Transaction Indicator to transactions with affiliates that are FINRA members.

The next call for the Rule 605 Working Group will be on Wednesday September 23 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will discuss a revised draft FIF letter to the SEC relating to reporting of orders with counterparty restrictions.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT Reference Database Working Groups for Wednesday September 23 at 2 pm ET. The Working Groups will discuss a draft FIF letter to the regulators relating to the validation of CAT symbols for expanded exchange trading hours, representative order linkage, timestamp granularity and clock synchronization.