With our Cybersecurity Working Group meeting on Thursday and the Cloud Technology Working Group meeting next Thursday, we thought this would be a good time to provide updates on these two groups to our membership. The Cloud Technology Working Group, the newer of the two groups, has attained two co-chairs and will begin its workstream to create a best practices document on implementing cloud technology starting on Thursday, April 5th. Meanwhile the Cybersecurity Working Group continues to focus on relevant cybersecurity threats to firms today. On Thursday, the group will explore internal risk controls that firms can employ to protect their internal business as well as their clients valuable information.  We've been receiving positive feedback from both groups; however, we would welcome expanded participation. If you're not in these groups and would like to join, please email Kevin in the program office at fifinfo@fif.com and if you're already subscribed to the group and would like to see a particular topic covered, reach out to us at the same address and we will work to add that to future agendas.

On Tuesday, March 20th, FIF and a contingent of FIF Members will travel to Washington D.C. to discuss our alternate implemenation approach on CAT with the SEC Division of Trading and Markets and the Commissioners.  We will discuss the outcomes of this meeting on our full CAT Working Group call on Wednesday, March 21 at 2pm est. 

FIF is pleased to welcome two new members to the FIF Community this week: Triad Securities and BIDS Trading  We look forward to their participation in our committees, working groups and events.

On Wednesday, February 28^th, 2018, at 4:15PM EST, the CAT NMS, LLC Operating Committee will be hosting a Consolidated Audit Trail webcast to discuss current progress on the CAT. The webcast will be recorded and playback will be available on the CAT NMS website. Please forward this meeting invite to any interested parties who would like to attend.

WebEx:

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE VIRTUAL WEBCAST (WebEx)

Please note that the event password for the WebEx is catnms

Teleconference Information:
Toll-Free: +1-877-918-9233

Passcode: 3216365#

FIF is participating in discussions with representatives from SIFMA and the STA to discuss implications of Riskless Principal Transactions and Manual Quotes reporting into the Consolidated Audit Trail.  If you would like to participate in these discussions, please contact the program office at fifinfo@fif.com.