Law Firm Presentation on Treasury Clearing

On Thursday August 15 at 2 pm ET, Ignacio Sandoval of the Orrick law firm will review the current status of the various rule filings by the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) to implement the SEC mandates relating to centralized clearing of cash trades in Treasuries and Treasury repos. FIF has invited the members of the Back Office Committee, the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group, the Financial Risk Regulations Working Group and the TRACE / Fixed Income Working Group to participate on this call. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of any of these group, please update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com.

POSTED Aug 12,2024

OFR Repo Reporting Working Group

The next call for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group will be on Monday August 5 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will discuss issues and questions from FIF members relating to the new requirement to report to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (OFR) repos that are executed bilaterally and not centrally-cleared. The Working Group will also review a draft supplemental letter to the OFR requesting additional guidance relating to the new reporting requirement.

POSTED Aug 05,2024

Short Position Reporting

FIF has scheduled two calls this week for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group. The first call will be on Tuesday August 6 at 2 pm ET; the second call will be on Thursday August 8 at 11 am ET. During the Tuesday call, the Working Group will review and seek to finalize a revised draft follow-up letter to the SEC relating to the implementation of short position reporting. During the Thursday call, the Working Group will discuss how to define “investment discretion”, “control” and “account” for short position reporting.  

POSTED Aug 05,2024

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