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. 

FIF has scheduled a call for the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group for Monday August 17 at 1 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss creating a contact list (similar to the CAT Contact List) to assist broker-dealers with onboarding broker-dealer counterparties and conducting periodic refresh processes with broker-dealer counterparties. The Working Group will also discuss challenges with implementing supervisory controls for single stock futures.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Equity Market Regulations Working Group for Monday August 17 at 3 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss final proposed changes to the FIF comment letter on the SEC rule proposal to rescind the order protection rule and the Reg NMS provisions relating to locking and crossing of quotations.

The Back Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday August 18 at 11 am ET to review applicable FICC, DTC, NSCC, SEC, MSRB, OCC and FINRA updates during the past month.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Equity Market Regulations Working Group for Tuesday August 18 at 2 pm ET to discuss FINRA Regulatory Notice 26-15 on modernizing FINRA’s best execution guidance.