FIF has scheduled a call for the Securities Lending Transparency Working Group for Tuesday July 2 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its review and discussion of the SLATE Participant Specification published by FINRA.

On June 14, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC relating to the implementation of the SEC’s new Form SHO reporting requirement. FIF would like to thank the members of the FIF Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.

FIF has scheduled a call for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for Monday June 17 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss issues and questions from FIF members relating to the reporting requirement recently adopted by the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research to require reporting of repos that are executed bilaterally and not centrally-cleared (NCCBR repos).  

The Back Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday June 18 at 11 am ET to review applicable FICC, DTC, NSCC, SEC, MSRB, OCC and FINRA updates during the past month. The spotlight presenter will be Robert Cavallo from DTCC, who will provide an update on the roll-out of T+1.

FIF has scheduled a call for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group for Tuesday June 18 at 1 pm ET to review and discuss a draft exemptive request to the SEC relating to linkage of representative orders and quotes to customer orders and linkage of order fulfillments to representative and principal orders and quotes. FIF has cancelled the regularly scheduled Wednesday CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT CAIS Working Group calls for this week because of the Juneteenth holiday.