FIF has cancelled the regularly-scheduled weekly CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT CAIS calls for this Wednesday October 5. FIF will host the regularly-scheduled weekly CAT CAIS call on Friday October 7 at 1 pm (ET).

The FIF CAT Monthly Update Working Group call for October will be on Thursday October 6 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will review guidance and updates from the CAT Plan Participants and FINRA CAT on CAT transaction reporting and CAT CAIS reporting during the prior month. The Working Group also will review the current areas of focus for FIF members and the current open issues for CAT transaction reporting and CAT CAIS reporting.

On September 20, FIF submitted a comment letter on FINRA Regulatory Notice 22-14 (FINRA Requests Comment on Proposed Trade Reporting Requirements for Over-The-Counter Options Transactions). FIF would like to thank the members of the FIF OTC Options Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of the comment letter.

The next call for the TRACE Working Group will be on Tuesday September 27 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its review of a draft FIF comment letter on FINRA Regulatory Notice 22-17 and MSRB Notice 2022-07. These regulatory notices propose that trades in corporate, agency and municipal bonds be reported as soon as practical and no later than one minute after execution.

The Data and Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday September 28 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets. The spotlight presenter will be Mark Schaedel of DataBP, who will update on the current status of efforts to introduce a consolidated tape in Europe.