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 panel focusing on market data and technology. For the options trading and market developments panel, the panelists will be: Gregg Berman of Citadel, Andy Bevers of Cboe Global Markets and Ellen Greene of IMC. For the market data and technology panel, the panelists will be: Tom Jordan of Jordan & Jordan, Raymond Tsui of SS&C and Jeff Wells of Cboe Global Markets. Additional panelists will be announced soon. The event will take place on Monday 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 September 9, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC in response to the rule filing by FINRA to extend the hours of operation of the FINRA/Nasdaq and FINRA/NYSE Trade Reporting Facilities. FIF would like to thank the members of the TRF / ORF Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.

On September 12, FIF submitted a letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research relating to the reporting of non-centrally cleared bilateral repos. FIF would like to thank the members of the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

The Section 31 Fees subgroup will have its next call on Monday September 15 at 3 pm ET. The subgroup will continue its discussion of enhancing the process for reconciliation of the FINRA Regulatory Transaction Fee. The subgroup will also discuss the handling of residual Section 31 fees. If you would like to participate in this discussion and are not a member of this subgroup, please send a note to fifinfo@fif.com, and we will include you in this discussion.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAIS Working Groups for Wednesday September 17 at 2 pm ET. The Working Groups will discuss issues relating to CAT billing, CAT Transaction Reporting and CAIS.