The next call for the Rule 605 Working Group will be on Tuesday July 15 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss a draft FIF Fact Sheet prepared by an FIF member. 

FIF has scheduled a webinar on Trade Surveillance for Wednesday July 23 at 2 pm ET. The moderator for the panel will be Holly Dito of Daiwa. The panelists will be Ted Karn of The Karn Group, Derek Lacarrubba of the K&L Gates law firm, Chris Montagnino of Jordan and Jordan, and Jeremy Vest of S3. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance / Surveillance Working Group to participate on this call. If you have any topics or questions that you would like to submit anonymously for this webinar, please send them to fifinfo@fif.com.

FIF is pleased to announce our first ever Boston event. The live, in-person event will take place on September 2^nd from 5-8pm ET at the Fidelity Investments office located at 245 Summer Street (next to Boston South Station). The event will be co-sponsored by Fidelity Capital Markets and LeveL Markets. Panel topics and speakers will be announced soon. The registration page for this event will be launched in short order, keep an eye out for that announcement. FIF would like to thank Fidelity and LeveL Markets for agreeing to sponsor this event.

On June 23, FIF submitted a letter to the CAT Plan Participants relating to CAT billing. On June 24, FIF submitted a letter to the CAT Plan Participants and FINRA CAT on pre-IPO orders and pre-corporate action orders. FIF would like to thank the members of the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of these letters.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group for Monday June 30 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will discuss a revised draft of an FIF letter requesting an extension of the current compliance date for Form SHO reporting.