The TRACE Working Group will have its next call on Tuesday September 15 at 3 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss FINRA Regulatory Notice 26-16 on expansion of the TRACE Affiliate – Principal Transaction Indicator.

The next call for the Rule 605 Working Group will be on Wednesday September 16 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of issues and questions from FIF members relating to the recently-implemented amendments to Rule 605.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT Reference Database Working Groups for Wednesday September 16 at 2 pm ET. The Working Groups will discuss a draft FIF letter to the regulators relating to the validation of CAT symbols for expanded exchange trading hours, representative order linkage, timestamp granularity and clock synchronization.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Tax Information Reporting Working Group for Thursday September 24 at 3 pm ET. Representatives from Wolters Kluwer will discuss best practices and concerns related to basis and other information for transferred securities.

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 KPI options. The panelists for the equities panel will include: Gregg Berman of Citadel Securities, Tom Hochleutner of Clear Street and Barry Metzger of DriveWealth. The panelists for the options/futures panel will include: Mark Lanctot of Robinhood, Ben Londergan of Simplex Trading and a Cboe Panelist to be named soon. 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.