FIF has scheduled a call for the FIF Residential Supervisory Locations subgroup for Thursday June 6 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will discuss questions from FIF members in response to recent guidance published by FINRA and recent webinars hosted by FINRA relating to residential supervisory locations and the remote inspections pilot. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of the FIF Residential Supervisory Locations subgroup, please send a note to fifinfo@fif.com, and we will add you to this discussion.

An FIF member would like to discuss the CFTC’s recent amendments to the CFTC Large Trader Reporting requirements. If you are interested in this topic, please send a note to fifinfo@fif.com, and we will include you in this discussion.

On May 16, FIF submitted a letter to FINRA in response to the FINRA Trade Reporting Notice on Upcoming Trade Reporting Enhancements for Fractional Share Transactions. FIF would like to thank the participants of the FIF Data and Technology Committee and the FIF TRF/ORF Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

On May 17, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC in response to the SEC’s Orders Instituting Proceedings relating to the rule filings by FINRA and the MSRB to reduce to one minute the timeframe for reporting to TRACE and RTRS. FIF would like to thank the participants of the FIF TRACE Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.  

FIF has scheduled a call for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for Monday May 20 at 2 pm ET. The agenda for the call will be to review and discuss the documentation published by the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (OFR) relating to reporting for repos that are executed bilaterally and not centrally-cleared (NCCBR repos).