On March 7, FIF held a webinar on Current Developments in Trading Technology. Ivy Schmerken of FlexTrade moderated the panel where timely topics such as converting voice to structured electronic data, 24-hour trading, working from home/returning to the office, outsourced trading, risk data and analytics, interoperability, and machine learning were discussed. Panelists included Matthew Brown of Blue Ocean ATS, Rajiv Kedia of FlexTrade and Mike Smith of IPC. If you were not able to attend this webinar and would like to watch the recording, you may do so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk34sFS69Rs

On Monday March 7, 2022 at 4pm ET, FIF will host a webinar on Current Developments in Trading Technology. The webinar will include discussion of the following topics: converting voice communications to structured electronic data; 24-hour trading; trends in working from home and returning to the office; outsourced trading; risk data and analytics; inter-operability; and machine learning. Ivy Schmerken of FlexTrade, will moderate the panel. The panelists will be Matthew Brown of Blue Ocean ATS, Rajiv Kedia of FlexTrade and Mike Smith of IPC. Please register here to join us for this webinar.

On Wednesday March 9, 2022 at 1 pm ET, Satish Kini and Robert Dura of the Debevoise law firm will provide an update on the recent OFAC sanctions against Russia, including recent Directives under Executive Order 14024. The invite for this presentation has been sent to the members of the FIF Compliance Working Group and the FIF Front Office and Back Office Committees. If you are interested in attending this presentation and do not have the invite in your calendar, please either update your profile or email us at fifinfo@fif.com.

On Thursday March 10, 2022 at 3pm ET, FIF will host a spotlight presentation on Chief Compliance Officer liability. Patrick Campbell of the Baker Hostetler law firm and Adam Felsenthal, General Counsel of Great Point Partners, will discuss a report by the Compliance Committee of the New York City Bar Association that details concerns about compliance officer liability and calls on regulators to provide limitations and guidance on when a compliance officer should be charged. They will also discuss the “no under influence over chief compliance officer” provision in the SEC’s recent rule proposal relating to security-based swaps. The invite for this presentation has been sent to the members of the FIF Compliance Working Group. If you are interested in attending this presentation and do not have the invite in your calendar, please either update your profile or email us at fifinfo@fif.com.

On March 2, 2022, FIF submitted a comment letter on the request submitted by the SEC to the Office of Management and Budget for approval of an extension of the previously approved collection of information provided for in Rule 606. FIF would like to thank the members of the FIF Rule 606 Working Group for their active participation in the drafting of this comment letter.