The FIF Front Office Committee will meet on Tuesday January 25 at 11am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges.

The FIF Data and Technology Committee will meet on Wednesday January 26 at 10am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets. Tim Baker, CFA, will present on the acquisition of CUSIP by FactSet.

On Tuesday January 18 at 11am ET, Matt Cohen, CEO of Provable Markets, will discuss his firm’s role as an Approved SFT Submitter for the DTCC Securities Financing Transaction Clearing Service, which is currently under review by the SEC. This presentation will be part of the FIF monthly Back Office Committee call. If any member of the FIF Securities Lending Transparency Working Group who is not a member of the FIF Back Office Committee is interested in joining this call, please either update your profile or email us at fifinfo@fif.com.  

On Thursday January 20 at 10am ET, Ignacio Sandoval and Kyle Whitehead of the Morgan Lewis law firm will provide an overview of the SEC’s recent rule proposal relating to electronic recordkeeping. The invite for this presentation has been sent to the members of the FIF Back Office Committee and the Compliance, Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies Working Groups. 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.

On Thursday January 20 at 3pm ET, Satish Kini of the Debevoise law firm will review the recent rule proposal by FinCEN to create a beneficial ownership registry. The invite for this presentation has been sent to the members of the FIF Compliance and CAIS Working Groups. To subscribe to either group, please either update your profile or email us at fifinfo@fif.com.