Update: For the second year in a row the popular FIF Year-End Holiday event has sold out. FIF will hold our 2024 Year-End Holiday Event, hosted by Société Générale on December 3rd from 3:00 pm to 7:30 pm ET. After opening remarks from Michael Walsh of Société Générale, there will be two panels. The first panel, on Regulatory Implementation Challenges for 2025, will feature Vaibhav Bang of Société Générale, Tom Hochleutner of Clear Street, Ian Park of n-Tier fs and Jacki VanMoer of Goldman Sachs. The second panel, on Retail Trading and Expanded Trading Hours, will feature Matt Billings of Robinhood, Gary Goldsholle of Charles Schwab, Venu Palaparthi of DriveWealth and Kevin Tyrrell of NYSE. The event will take place at the offices of Société Générale at 245 Park Avenue, New York, NY. Registration and networking begins at 3 pm ET. The panel discussions will be from 4-6 pm ET, with refreshments and networking afterwards from 6-7:30 pm ET. FIF would like to thank Société Générale for hosting this event and n-Tier fs for sponsoring. If you have any questions or concerns surrounding the event, please contact the program office at fifinfo@fif.com.

FIF has scheduled two calls for this week for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group. The first call will be on Monday December 2 at 10 am ET; the second call will be on Thursday December 5 at 10 am ET. The Working Group will continue to discuss the implementation of the new requirement to report non-centrally cleared bilateral repos to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research.

FIF has scheduled a call for the SEC Equity Market Proposals Working Group for Monday December 2 at 1 pm. The Working Group will continue the discussion of the implementation of the SEC’s amendments to Regulation NMS.

FIF has scheduled two calls for this week for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group. The first call will be on Monday December 2 at 2 pm ET; the second call will be on Thursday December 5 at 11 am ET. The Monday call will focus on draft FIF comment letters on verbal activity and CAT cost savings; the Thursday call will focus on the reporting by a routing broker of default settings applied by a receiving firm.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group for Wednesday December 4 at 10 am ET. The Working Group will continue to discuss the implementation of short position reporting, including an update on a call with the SEC on December 2. The Working Group will also discuss a question from an FIF member relating to the bona-fide market making exception from the Reg SHO locate requirement.