FIF Submits Supplemental Comment Letter to MSRB on Proposal for One-Minute Reporting

On April 27, FIF submitted a supplemental comment letter to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) in response to a proposal by the MSRB to reduce the timeframe for reporting trades in municipal bonds. This comment letter was a supplement to the comment letter submitted by FIF to the MSRB in October 2022. FIF would like to thank the members of the FIF TRACE Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this supplemental comment letter.

POSTED May 01,2023

CAT Monthly Update Working Group Call

The FIF CAT Monthly Update Working Group call for May will be on Thursday May 4 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will review guidance and updates from the CAT Plan Participants and FINRA CAT on CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT CAIS reporting during the prior month. The Working Group will also review the current areas of focus for FIF members and the current open issues for CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT CAIS reporting.

POSTED May 01,2023

SEC Rule 3b-16 (Definition of an “Exchange”)

FIF has scheduled a call for Tuesday May 9 at 2 pm ET to discuss the SEC’s recent reopening of the comment period on the SEC’s proposed amendments to Rule 3b-16 (relating to the definition of an “exchange”). FIF has invited members of the ATS Working Group, the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group and the TRACE/Fixed Income Working Group to participate on this call. If you are not a member of any of these groups and would like to participate on this call, please update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com.

POSTED May 01,2023

CAT Transaction Reporting Survey Requests to FIF Members

On Friday April 28, FIF sent out two survey requests to FIF members relating to CAT Transaction Reporting: the first survey request relates to a Plan Participant proposal for scheduled linkage in the CAT production mirror environment; the second survey request relates to QA reviews of CAT events. FIF has requested that FIF members respond to the survey requests by Monday May 15. All survey responses will be anonymized.

POSTED May 01,2023

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