FIF has scheduled a call for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group for Monday January 31 at 2pm ET to focus on linkage of representative and customer orders for unlinked systems.

The CAT Monthly Update Working Group will meet on Thursday February 3 at 2pm ET to review guidance and updates from the SROs 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.

The FIF Rule 606 Working Group will meet on Tuesday February 1 at 2pm ET to discuss a draft interchange report to facilitate Rule 606(a) options reporting for future reporting periods based on SEC guidance, reporting for cash value orders that involve fractional shares, and the FINRA rule proposal to require reporting for routes in OTC equities.

On January 19, 2022, FIF submitted a comment letter on the SEC’s rule proposal to create a new securities loan reporting system. FIF would like to thank the members of the FIF Securities Lending Transparency Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of the comment letter.

The FIF TRACE Working Group will meet on Tuesday January 25 at 2pm ET to discuss the rule adopted by the Federal Reserve Board to expand TRACE reporting for Treasury and Agency securities to certain depository institutions that are not broker-dealers, interpretive questions relating to the new proposed portfolio trade modifier, the recent filing by the SEC to extend the time period for SEC action on FINRA’s proposed rule change to require FINRA members to append modifiers to delayed Treasury spot trades and portfolio trades when reporting to TRACE, and the recent SEC order approving the expansion of the current exemption to allow reporting of an ATS counter-party (instead of the ATS) as the TRACE counter-party where the ATS is not involved in settlement.