The Data and Technology Committee will have its next call on Monday November 25 at 3 pm ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets.

FIF is excited to announce 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 Ian Park of n-Tier fs, Jacki Van Moer of Goldman Sachs and a representative from Société Générale. 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. FIF Managing Director, Howard Meyerson will moderate the regulatory panel while FIF Advisory Chair, Tom Jordan will moderate the retail trading/extended trading hours panel. 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. FIF Members may register for free here. Non-members who are interested may apply by contacting the program office at fifinfo@fif.com.

On November 5, FIF submitted a letter to the SEC relating to the implementation of short position reporting. FIF would like to thank the members of the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

On November 5, FIF submitted a letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (“OFR”) relating to implementation of the new requirement to report non-centrally cleared bilateral repos to the OFR. FIF would like to thank the members of the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

On November 8, FIF submitted a letter to the Commission requesting an extension of the implementation date for short position reporting. FIF would like to thank the members of the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this extension request.