FIF has scheduled a call for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group for Tuesday October 24 at 10 am to discuss a draft FIF presentation to FINRA requesting that FINRA provide additional data to industry members to assist industry members in reconciling Section 31 fees. This presentation was prepared based on discussions with an FIF sub-group focused on Section 31. FIF is providing an opportunity for members of the FIF CAT Transaction Reporting Working to provide any input on the draft presentation.

The Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday October 24 at 11 am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges. In addition to the regular agenda, the FIF Co-Chairs will review an outline of regulatory reporting changes for T+1.

FIF has scheduled a call for Tuesday October 24 at 2 pm ET to review regulatory reporting fines for 2022 and 2023, including CAT, EBS, LOPR, Rule 605, Rule 606, short interest reporting, swap data reporting, TRACE, trade advertising and TRF/ORF. All firm names and dates are excluded from the presentation. If any of the above reporting areas are not covered on this call, they will be covered on a future call. FIF has invited members of the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group to participate on this call. FIF has also created a new Regulatory Reporting Fines Working Group and is inviting members of this new Working Group to participate on this call. If you are not a member of either Working Group and would like to participate on this call, please update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com.   

FIF has scheduled an additional call this week for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group. The call will be on Tuesday October 24 at 3 pm ET and will focus on CAT billing, including reconciliation for on-exchange and off-exchange trades. This will be in addition to the regularly-scheduled CAIS call on Wednesday October 25 at 11 am ET and the regularly-scheduled CAT Transaction Reporting call on Wednesday October 25 at 2 pm ET.

The Data and Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday October 25 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets. In addition to the regular agenda, FIF will review the October 18 SEC rule proposal on Volume-Based Exchange Transaction Pricing for NMS Stocks.