The Data and Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday January 25 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 Tim Baker of Expero, who will discuss the Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA). The FDTA requires financial regulators to develop common standards that promote the organization, readability and availability of financial data they collect from regulated institutions.

FIF has scheduled a call for Thursday January 26 at 11 am ET to discuss a recent proposal by the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research to require reporting for non-centrally cleared bilateral repos. If you would like to participate on this call, please update your FIF profile to add OFR Repo Reporting or contact fifinfo@fif.com. FIF also is inviting members of the TRACE/Fixed Income Working Group for this call.

FIF has scheduled a call for Monday January 30 at 2 pm ET to discuss the recent SEC rule proposal on Order Competition. FIF has invited members of the Data and Technology Committee, the Front Office Committee and the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group to participate on this call. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of any of these groups, please update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com.

The Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday January 31 at 11 am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges. The spotlight presenter will be Ari Burstein of IntelligentCross, who will discuss the recent FINRA filing with the SEC to add IntelligentCross as a participant of FINRA’s Alternative Display Facility (ADF).

On Thursday February 2 at 11 am ET, James Dombach and Larry Bergmann of the Davis Wright Tremaine law firm will discuss the SEC’s recent Regulation Best Execution rule proposal. FIF has invited members of the Front Office Committee and the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group to participate on this call. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of either of these groups, please update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com. If you have any questions or topics that you would like to submit to the presenters in advance of the call, please send them to fifinfo@fif.com, and FIF will forward them anonymously to the presenters.