On Thursday January 20 at 10am ET, Ignacio Sandoval and Kyle Whitehead of the Morgan Lewis Law Firm will provide an overview of the SEC’s recent rule proposal relating to electronic recordkeeping. The invite for this presentation has been sent to the members of the FIF Back Office Committee, the Compliance Working Group, the Cybersecurity Working Group and the Emerging Technologies 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.

As of January 1, 2022, the CAT Committee will be renamed as the CAT Monthly Update Working Group and the CAT Tech Specs Working Group will be renamed as the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group. This is intended to provide a clearer description of the functions of these groups. The CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group will meet on Wednesday January 5 at 2pm ET; the Working Group will not meet on January 3. The CAT Monthly Update Working Group will meet on Thursday January 6 at 2pm ET. The CAT CAIS Working Group will have its regularly scheduled calls next week on Wednesday and Friday.

The next meeting for the new FIF Securities Lending Transparency Working Group is Tuesday December 21 at 2pm ET. This Working Group will discuss and prepare a comment letter on the SEC’s November 18 rule proposal to create a new reporting system for securities lending. The reporting system, as proposed by the SEC, will apply to equities and bonds, including corporates, Treasuries, Agencies, asset and mortgage-backed securities, and municipal bonds. After the New Year, this group is scheduled to meet on Tuesdays at 2pm ET and Thursdays at 11am ET until the comment letter is completed. To subscribe to this group, please either update your profile or email us at fifinfo@fif.com.

On December 1, 2021, FINRA filed SR-FINRA-2021-030 with the SEC, “Notice of Filing of Proposed Rule Change to Amend FINRA Rule 6730 to Require Members to Append Modifiers to Delayed Treasury Spot and Portfolio Trades When Reporting to TRACE.” FIF has scheduled the next call for the TRACE Working Group for Tuesday December 21 at 11am ET to make any final edits to FIF’s comment letter on this filing.

As of January 1, 2022, the CAT Committee will be renamed as the CAT Monthly Update Working Group and the CAT Tech Specs Working Group will be renamed as the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group. This is intended to provide a clearer description of the functions of these groups. The CAT Tech Specs Working Group will have a call today at 2pm ET, and the Wednesday CAT Tech Specs call for this week is cancelled. For this week only, the CAIS Working Group will have a call today at 11am ET, and the Wednesday and Friday CAIS calls are cancelled. All CAT and CAIS calls for next week are cancelled. The regular schedule of calls will resume after the New Year.