On Monday March 18 at 3 pm ET, FINRA is hosting a call for FIF members. The call will provide a forum for a discussion of Rule 6151 recently adopted by FINRA, which requires industry members to submit their Rule 606(a) reports to FINRA. FINRA will have representatives from its Office of General Counsel and its Market Regulation and Technology groups participating on the call. FIF has forwarded the invitation for the call to all FIF Rule 606 Working Group members. For additional detail about the implementation of Rule 6151, please refer to FINRA Regulatory Notice 24-05.

The Back Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday March 19 at 11 am ET to review applicable FICC, DTC, NSCC, SEC, MSRB, OCC, IRS and FINRA updates during the past month.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Rule 605 Working Group for Tuesday March 19 at 3 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its review and discussion of the changes to Rule 605 that the SEC adopted on March 6, including issues and questions from FIF members.

FIF has scheduled an additional call this week for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group. This call will be on Thursday March 21 at 2 pm ET and will be in addition to the regularly-scheduled CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group call on Wednesday March 20 at 2 pm ET. During the Wednesday call, the Working Group will review and discuss draft FIF exemption requests relating to representative order linkage and reporting of port settings. The Thursday call will focus on other issues, including CAT billing, CAT reporting for RFQ responses that are not immediately actionable, reporting of handling instructions for auctions, and issues and questions from FIF members.

The Data and Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday March 27 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets. The spotlight presenter will be Geralyn Endo of MEMX, who will provide an update on the launch of the MEMX Options Exchange.