The Data and Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday February 26 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the SEC Transition Working Group for Thursday February 27 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of issues and recommendations for FIF to raise with the incoming SEC Chair during 2025. If you are interested in this topic and are not a member of this Working Group, you can update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com.

On Wednesday March 5 at 11 am ET, William Barbera and Derek Lacarrubba from the Schulte law firm will discuss the 2025 FINRA Annual Regulatory Oversight Report. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group to participate on this call.

FIF has posted on the FIF member website an updated calendar of regulatory implementations for 2025 and beyond. FIF plans to update this calendar on an ongoing basis with the assistance of FIF members. Please contact fifinfo@fif.com with any comments on the calendar or any items to be added or updated.

FIF has scheduled two CAT Working Group calls for this week. The first call will be a joint call for the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT CAIS Working Groups on Monday February 10 at 2 pm ET. During this call, the Working Groups will discuss a draft FIF letter in response to the recent blog by Robert Cook, the President and CEO of FINRA, titled “CAT Should Be Modified to Cease Collecting Personal Information on Retail Investors.” The second call be for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group and is scheduled for Wednesday February 12 at 2 pm ET. The Wednesday call will focus on the BFMM Flag, representative order linkage, CAT costs and other CAT Transaction Reporting issues.