FIF is excited to announce our annual Chicago event, sponsored by Cboe Global Markets. After opening remarks from Kevin Carrai of Cboe Global Markets, there will be two panels, one focusing on options trading and market developments and the other focusing on managing technology risk. For the options trading and market developments panel, the moderator will be Mark Davies of S3 and the panelists will be Angelo Evangelou of Cboe Global Markets, Ben Londergan of Simplex Trading and another panelist to be named later. The managing technology risk panel will be moderated by Tom Jordan of Jordan & Jordan with the panelists being Chris Boldt of Interactive Brokers, Jim Dolan of Kezar Trading, Tim Sargent of CalcGuard Technologies and Jeff Wells of Cboe Global Markets. Registration in the lobby begins at 2 pm CT. The speaking engagement will be from 3-4:30 pm CT, with refreshments and networking afterwards from 4:30-6 pm CT. FIF would like to thank Cboe Global Markets for sponsoring this event. Please register here to secure your spot. FIF events are free to attend for FIF Members. If you have any questions, please contact fifinfo@fif.com.

On September 9, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC in support of the rule filing by the CAT Plan Participants to exclude certain verbal activity from CAT reporting. FIF would like to thank the members of the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

On September 12, FIF submitted a letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research on reporting for bunched trades and allocations and reporting transactions of subsidiaries. FIF would like to thank the members of the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for Monday September 16 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will review a draft FIF letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (the “OFR”) relating to the reporting of non-centrally cleared bilateral repos. The Working Group will also continue its review and discussion of the FAQs recently published by the OFR.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Position Reporting Working Group for Monday September 16 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of the implementation of the SEC’s new requirement for reporting of short positions.