The next call for the TRACE/Fixed Income Working Group will be on Tuesday December 13 at 3 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss FINRA Regulatory Notice 22-26 (“Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE): FINRA Requests Comment on Proposed Changes to TRACE Reporting Relating to Delayed Treasury Spot Trades”), FINRA Regulatory Notice 22-27 (“TRACE Reporting of U.S. Treasury Securities: FINRA Adopts Enhancements to TRACE Reporting for U.S. Treasury Securities”), and responses from FINRA to FIF member comments and questions on TRACE reporting by Covered Depository Institutions and TRACE reporting for foreign sovereign bonds.

The Back Office Committee will have its next call on Thursday December 15 at 11 am ET to review applicable FICC, DTC, NSCC, SEC, MSRB, OCC, IRS and FINRA updates during the past month.

The Data and Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday November 30 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 Brent Yates of IEX, who will discuss IEX cloudSwXtch.

The FIF CAT Monthly Update Working Group call for December will be on this Thursday December 1 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 two calls for the Rule 606 Working Group. The first call is scheduled for Monday December 5 at 1 pm ET and will focus on the rule filing submitted by FINRA to the SEC on Disclosure of Order Routing Information for OTC Equities (SR-FINRA-2022-031). The second call is scheduled for Tuesday December 6 at 2 pm ET and will focus on the recent Risk Alert published by the SEC’s Division of Examinations on Observations Related to Regulation NMS Rule 606 Disclosures.