The FIF Front Office Committee will meet on Tuesday October 26 at 11am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges.

The FIF Data and Technology Committee will meet on Wednesday, October 27 at 10am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets. For the spotlight presentation this month we will have Gary Leinberger from Exegy come on to present on the topic of growing bandwidth requirements for North American equities and commodities data.

Because of the large number of issues that the CAIS Working Group is currently reviewing, FIF has scheduled an additional call for this week on Monday October 25 at 11am ET. During this call, the Working Group will discuss issues and questions from FIF members relating to CAIS reporting for specific types of accounts, including trusts, estates, ERISA Plans, LLCs and foreign accounts. This call is in addition to the standing Wednesday and Friday CAIS Working Group calls.

Join us November 11 at 4:15pm ET for part seven of our webinar series on the implementation considerations of the SEC Market Data Infrastructure Rule. Tom Jordan, FIF Advisory Chair, and Manisha Kimmel, Chief Policy Officer at MayStreet, will discuss the November 5th filing of the Plan Amendment by the SROs. The agenda will include a summary of the amendment, status of governance changes,  potential next steps and audience participation. In order to attend this webinar, please register here. If you have any questions, please email us at fifinfo@fif.com. 

At the request of members of the FIF CAT CAIS Working Group, FIF has scheduled a call for Tuesday, October 19 at 2pm ET to discuss firm processes for validating SSNs and other personal identifiers. The invite for this call has been sent to all members of the FIF CAT CAIS Working Group. FIF also seeks participation from other persons involved in the SSN-validation process, including persons involved in tax reporting. If you are not a member of the CAIS Working Group and would like to participate in this discussion, please email fifinfo@fif.com, and we will include you on this invite.