FIF is pleased to welcome Mirae Asset Securities to the FIF Community

FIF is excited to announce our next in-person event, sponsored by Daiwa Capital Markets, The Shift to 23/5: Convergence and Divergence in TradFi & Digital Asset Infrastructure.

After opening remarks from Chief Risk Officer, Ben Genek of Daiwa, there will be two panels, one on Extended Trading Hours, TradFi & the December 6th Shift and the second will be on Digital Assets & Crypto – The Modern Blueprint. The Extended Trading Hours panel will be moderated by Tom Jordan of Jordan & Jordan, and the panelists will include Brian Hyndman of Blue Ocean Technologies, Andrew Upward of Jane Street and a third panelist to be named soon. The Digital Asset & Crypto panel will be moderated by Shawn Sloves of Fundamental Interactions, and the panelists will include Greg Cignarella of ApexInvest Markets, Mark Daly of Zero Hash and Alan Konevsky of T-Zero. The event will take place on Wednesday June 17th at Daiwa Capital Markets' offices at 1251 Avenue of the Americas, 49th Floor, New York, NY 10020. Registration begins at 4:30pm ET, the speaking engagement will be from 5-6:30pm ET with refreshments and networking afterwards from 6:30-8pm ET. FIF would like to thank Daiwa Capital 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.

On May 27, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC on the rule filing by FINRA to expand the TRACE affiliate indicator to apply to trades with affiliates that are FINRA members. FIF would like to thank the members of the TRACE / RTRS Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

FIF has scheduled two calls for this week for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group. The first call will be on Monday June 1 at 11 am ET; the second call will be on Thursday June 4 at 1 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of a draft FIF comment letter on the rule filing by FINRA to amend short interest reporting (FINRA Rule 4560; proposed FINRA Rule 4321). 

The next call for the Rule 605 Working Group will be on Monday June 1 at 1 pm ET. FIF members will review with the full Working Group a draft Rule 605 Fact Sheet relating to the upcoming Rule 605 amendments. The Working Group will also discuss issues and questions from FIF members relating to the upcoming Rule 605 amendments.