FIF has scheduled a call for Tuesday March 7 at 11 am ET to discuss a revised draft of an FIF comment letter on a recent proposal by the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research to require daily reporting for non-centrally cleared bilateral repos. FIF has invited members of the new OFR Repo Reporting Working Group and the TRACE/Fixed Income Working Group to participate on this call. The comment period ends on March 10. This is the last call for this Working Group prior to the submission of the FIF comment letter.

The next call for the Rule 605 and 606 Working Groups will be on Tuesday March 7 at 3 pm ET. The Working Groups will discuss the first draft of an FIF comment letter on the SEC’s recent rule proposal on Disclosure of Order Execution Information.  

The FIF CAT Monthly Update Working Group call for March will be on Thursday March 9 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 also will review the current areas of focus for FIF members and the current open issues for CAT transaction reporting and CAT CAIS reporting.

FIF has scheduled a call for Thursday March 9 at 3 pm ET to continue the discussion of the SEC’s Order Competition Rule proposal. As notified last week, the invitation for this call has only been sent to the members of the new FIF SEC Equity Market Proposals Working Group. Please update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com if you want to be added to this new Working Group.

FIF has scheduled a call for Monday March 13 at 2 pm ET to discuss CAT reporting for RFQ responses. Given the focused subject matter, FIF is not sending an invite to the full CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group. If you want to participate on this call, please send a note to fifinfo@fif.com, and we will include you on this call.