The next call for the FIF Cybersecurity Working Group will be on Thursday September 21 at 3 pm ET. The spotlight presenter will be Matt Weinberg of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agenda (CISA), who will discuss Current Threats to the Financial Industry and CISA’s 2023 Strategic Plan. CISA is an agency of the US Department of Homeland Security. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of the Cybersecurity Working Group, please update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com.

The next call for the FIF Tax Information Reporting Working Group will be on Thursday September 28 at 3 pm ET. The spotlight presenter will be Neil Bromberg of EY, who will discuss Automation and AI in Tax Operations. FIF has also invited the members of the FIF Emerging Technologies Working Group for this call. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of either of these Working Groups, please update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com.

Next Bridge Hydrocarbons recently filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the SEC to distribute non-transferable subscription rights only to holders who register their Next Bridge common stock directly with the company's transfer agent. This is a press release issued by Next Bridge. If you are interested in discussing this issue with other FIF members, please send a note to fifinfo@fif.com.

FIF is pleased to welcome Schonfeld to the FIF Community.

FIF will not have a CAIS Working Group call this week. Instead, FIF will host two calls for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group. The first call will be on Wednesday August 30 at 11 am ET and will focus on CAT reporting for non-executable RFQ responses. The second call will be on Wednesday August 30 at 2 pm ET and will focus on the recent Notice of Filing published by the SEC relating to a proposal by the CAT Plan Participants to implement a revised linkage timeline for CAT reporting.