FIF will host a webinar on trade surveillance on Tuesday July 30 at 3 pm ET. Holly Dito of Pershing will moderate the panel. The panelists will be Steve Bonanno of BXS, Chris Montagnino of Jordan & Jordan, Ted Karn of The Karn Group, and Jeremy Vest of S3. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group to the webinar. FIF will provide additional detail about the webinar content prior to the event.

On June 20, FIF submitted a letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research requesting clarification on various issues and questions relating to the new requirement to report repos that are executed bilaterally and not centrally-cleared (NCCBR repos). FIF would like to thank the members of the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.

The Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday June 25 at 11 am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges.

FIF has scheduled three calls this week for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group. On Tuesday June 25 at 1 pm ET, the Working Group will review changes to the FIF request for exemptive relief relating to linkage of representative orders and IDQS quotes to customer orders and linkage of order fulfillments to representative and principal orders and IDQS quotes. The call will focus on the requested exemptive relief for IDQS scenarios. On Wednesday June 26 at 2 pm ET, the Working Group will discuss issues and questions from FIF members and FIF member comments and questions to submit to FINRA CAT. On Thursday June 27 at 2 pm ET, the Working Group will discuss the response letter submitted by the CAT Plan Participants on June 13 relating to the Executed Share Model. 

The Data & Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday June 26 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets.