FIF is pleased to welcome DriveWealth to the FIF Community.

FIF is pleased to announce a new member of our Advisory Committee with the addition of Fidelity’s Krista Ryan.

Krista is a Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel at Fidelity Investments where she manages a team of attorneys supporting Fidelity’s institutional brokerage trading desks (across equities, fixed income, FOREX, and prime brokerage/securities finance), Fidelity’s brokerage operations including regulatory reporting, and Fidelity’s brokerage technology groups.  Her team also supports Fidelity’s mutual fund supermarket and transfer agent.  Prior to her current role, Krista helped lead Fidelity’s advocacy and implementation efforts with respect to the Dodd-Frank Act, and previously supported Fidelity’s retail broker-dealer. 

Krista will replace Mark Campbell who is retiring from Fidelity after more than 25 years. Mark will be missed not just at Fidelity but at FIF, STA and other organizations where his contributions improved our capital markets infrastructure.

FIF has scheduled two calls this week for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group. The first call will be on Monday June 10 at 2 pm ET; the second call will be on Thursday June 13 at 1 pm ET. The agenda for the calls will be to continue the review and discussion of a draft letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research requesting guidance on various implementation questions and issues relating to the new requirement to report repos that are executed bilaterally and not centrally-cleared (NCCBR repos).

FIF has scheduled a call for the Securities Lending Transparency Working Group for Monday June 10 at 3 pm ET to review and discuss the Participant Specification for SLATE recently published by FINRA.

FIF has scheduled two calls this week for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group. The first call will be on Tuesday June 11 at 11 am ET; the second call will be on Thursday June 13 at 3 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its review and discussion of a draft FIF letter to the SEC requesting guidance on the implementation of SEC Rule 13f-2 on Short Position and Short Activity Reporting. The Working Group will also discuss issues and questions from FIF members relating to the implementation of Rule 13f-2.