On Tuesday January 9 at 3 pm ET, Penny Christophorou and Ignacio Sandoval of the Morgan Lewis law firm will review the rule recently adopted by the SEC to expand centralized clearing of Treasuries. FIF has invited members of the following Committees and Working Groups to participate on this call: Back Office Committee; Compliance and Surveillance Working Group; Financial Risk Regulations Working Group; and TRACE / Fixed Income Working Group. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of any of these Committees or Working Groups, please update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com.  

FIF has scheduled a call for Thursday January 11 at 3 pm ET to review a digest of rules recently adopted or proposed by the SEC or FINRA. The rules are organized based on the following areas: Technology, Operations and Finance; Equities; Options; Fixed Income; Security-Based Swaps; Multiple Asset Classes; and Compliance and Proceedings. The January 11 call will focus on the first two areas. FIF has invited the members of the FIF Compliance and Surveillance Working Group to participate on this call. FIF has also created a new SEC FINRA Regulations Working Group. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of either Working Group, please update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Section 31 subgroup for Tuesday January 16 at 3 pm ET. The subgroup will discuss next steps after the recent FIF member call with FINRA representatives to discuss enhancing the reconciliation process for the FINRA Regulatory Transaction Fee (charged by FINRA to reimburse FINRA for the Section 31 fee it pays to the SEC). If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of this subgroup, please contact fifinfo@fif.com.

At the request of FIF members, FIF has created a subgroup for members to discuss issues relating to T+1 implementation, including the new requirements relating to same-day allocations. If you are interested in participating in this subgroup, please send a note to fifinfo@fif.com.

The recently-adopted SEC rules for security-based swap execution facilities (SBSEFs) require firms to report certain financial and other data with Inline XBRL tagging. If you would like to discuss this requirement with other FIF members or are able to recommend a vendor that offers XBRL tagging for this type of reporting, please send a note to fifinfo@fif.com.