On Monday March 7, 2022 at 4pm ET, FIF will host a webinar on Current Developments in Trading Technology. The webinar will include discussion of the following topics: converting voice communications to structured electronic data; 24-hour trading; trends in working from home and returning to the office; outsourced trading; risk data and analytics; interoperability; and machine learning. Ivy Schmerken of FlexTrade, will moderate the panel. The panelists will be Brian Hyndman of Blue Ocean ATS, Rajiv Kedia/Shane Remolina of FlexTrade and Mike Smith of IPC. Please register here to join us for this webinar.

On Thursday March 10, 2022 at 3pm ET, FIF will host a spotlight presentation on Chief Compliance Officer liability. Patrick Campbell of the Baker Hostetler law firm, Adam Felsenthal, General Counsel of Great Point Partners, and Scott Gluck of the Duane Morris law firm will discuss a report by the Compliance Committee of the New York City Bar Association that details concerns about compliance officer liability and calls on regulators to provide limitations and guidance on when a compliance officer should be charged. They will also discuss the “no under influence over chief compliance officer” provision in the SEC’s recent rule proposal relating to security-based swaps. The invite for this presentation has been sent to the members of the FIF Compliance Working Group. If you are interested in attending this presentation and do not have the invite in your calendar, please either update your profile or email us at fifinfo@fif.com.

The FIF Front Office Committee will meet on Tuesday February 22 at 11am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges. The spotlight presenter for the meeting will be Hitesh Mittal, CEO of BestEx Research, who will discuss his paper on Queue Jumping and Smart Order Routing for Passive Limit Orders in the US Equity Market.

The FIF Data and Technology Committee will meet on Wednesday February 23 at 10am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets. The spotlight presenters for the meeting will be Robert Vilardo of Nasdaq/UTP and Brian Faughnan of SIAC. They will provide an update on recent discussions about adding odd lots to the consolidated tape. If you are not normally subscribed to this committee and would like to listen in to this spotlight presentation, please email the program office at fifinfo@fif.com and we will forward you the invite. 

The FIF Rule 606 Working Group will meet on Thursday February 24 at 10am ET to review a draft comment letter on the recent filing by the SEC with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that estimates the annual costs to the industry for Rule 606 compliance. In connection with this comment letter, FIF has sent a survey request to members of the Rule 606 Working Group relating to the volume of Rule 606(b)(3) requests that firms have received. The Working Group also will discuss the FINRA proposal to require Rule 606-type reporting for routes in OTC equities.