• Cybersecurity and Emerging Technology Working Groups. On March 23, Josh Burns of CitiHub will present on Secrets Management in the Financial Industry Using a Hashicorp Vault Implementation.
• Tax Information Reporting Working Group. On March 25, Stevie Conlon and colleagues at Wolters Kluwer will present Part 2 of their Spotlight on Virtual Currency.
• Data and Technology Committee. On March 31, Brian Faughnan of SIAC will present on Pillar migration updates.

At the request of FIF Members, FIF has created a Working Group to focus on interpretive and operational questions relating to Regulation SHO and potential areas where FIF Members might want to seek interpretive guidance. In order to join this group, update your working group subscriptions in your profile here: https://fif.com/index.php/profile. If you're having trouble, or forgot your password, email fifinfo@fif.com for assistance. The first meeting of this Working Group is scheduled for March 18 at 10 am ET. Mark Fitterman of the Baker McKenzie law firm will participate in the discussion. 

During October 2018, FIF Members presented recommendations to the SEC staff for the modernization of Rule 605. These recommendations, which were developed through the FIF Rule 605 Working Group, were focused on updating Rule 605 to reflect market changes since the adoption of Rule 605 in 2000. At the request of FIF Members, on February 25, FIF held a meeting for the FIF Rule 605 Working Group to discuss reviewing and updating these recommendations. The Working Group reviewed the proposals from October 2018 and agreed to proceed with updating the recommendations to present to the SEC during 2021. The next Working Group meeting is scheduled for Thursday March 18 at 11 am ET. If you are not a member of the Rule 605 Working Group and would like to join, update your working group subscriptions in your profile here: https://fif.com/index.php/profile. If you're having trouble, or forgot your password, email fifinfo@fif.com for assistance.

FIF has announced the fourth webinar in its series of eight. The webinar series has included three webinars thus far addressing the implementation considerations of the 898-page Rule. The panel discussions so far have focused on the rule overview, core data, consolidated market data, governance and pricing.

The 4th panel is scheduled for Tuesday March 9 at 3 pm ET. This panel will focus on competing consolidators and will feature Scott Parsons of Exegy, Kerry Baker Relf of Refinitiv and a third panelist to be named later.

Please register for this webinar here. After registering, you will be prompted to follow a link to Zoom, in order to add the Webinar to your calendar. If your firm is a non-member or blocks Zoom, please email the Program Office at fifinfo@fif.com for dial-in details.

At the request of FIF Members, FIF has created a Working Group to focus on interpretive and operational questions relating to Regulation SHO and potential areas where FIF Members might want to seek interpretive guidance. In order to join this group, update your working group subscriptions in your profile here: https://fif.com/index.php/profile. If you're having trouble, or forgot your password, email fifinfo@fif.com for assistance. If you have any specific issues or questions relating to Regulation SHO that you would like to see this group discuss, please send them to us at fifinfo@fif.com.