FIF is excited to announce our first quarterly event of 2026, sponsored by OTC Markets. After opening remarks from OTC Markets, there will be two panels, one on Building Regulated U.S. Markets for Tokenized Securities and Digital Commodities, and the other panel focusing on exchange and other market developments, including expanded exchange trading hours, SIP odd lots and changes to minimum quoting increments. The event will take place on Tuesday March 24th at OTC Markets' offices at 300 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10282. Registration in the lobby begins at 4pm 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 OTC 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 February 10, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC in response to the rule filing by CAT LLC to reduce CAT operating costs. FIF would like to thank the members of the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAIS Working Groups for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

At the request of an FIF member, FIF is creating a new Trump Accounts Working Group. This Working Group will provide a forum for FIF members to discuss technical and operational issues relating to the creation and maintenance of Trump Accounts, including the account transfer process. If you would like to participate in these discussions, please update your FIF profile or send a note to fifinfo@fif.com.

The Back Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday February 17 at 11 am ET to review applicable FICC, DTC, NSCC, SEC, MSRB, OCC, IRS and FINRA updates during the past month.

The next call for the Digital Asset Securities Working Group will be on Tuesday February 17 at 2 pm ET.  The Working Group will discuss the amended rule filing by Nasdaq relating to tokenized securities and the Statement of the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets on the Custody of Crypto Asset Securities by Broker-Dealers. The Working Group will also continue its discussion of the recent Statement of the SEC’s Divisions of Corporation Finance, Investment Management and Trading and Markets on Tokenized Securities and issues and questions from FIF members relating to the DTCC Tokenization Services. If you would like to participate in this discussion and are not a member of this Working Group, please update your FIF profile or send a note to fifinfo@fif.com.