Clear Street has expanded its 24/6 trading capabilities to enable greater overnight access through a collaboration with OTC Markets Group. According to a story in The Trade News, the collaboration will see Clear Street connect to OTC Markets’ MOON ATS, allowing clients to access securities listed on major exchanges during an overnight session and use a select group of actively traded OTC equity securities in the same period through OTC Overnight. Head of electronic execution at Clear Street, Peter Eliades said: “At Clear Street, we are giving clients more control over when and how they...

Nasdaq and Amazon Web Service (AWS) have expanded their existing partnership in order to offer its financial services clients new cloud-based solutions according to a story in MarketsMedia news. Adena Friedman, chair and chief executive of Nasdaq, said .that the firm’s move to the cloud has enhanced its ability to navigate the current environment successfully due to the increased and instant scalability of its market infrastructure, including its matching engines, resulting in enhanced resiliency and efficiency. “Through our expanded partnership with AWS, we plan to leverage the...

FIF has scheduled three calls for this week for the SLATE Working Group. The first call will be on Monday April 21 at 11 am ET; the second call will be on Wednesday April 23 at 10 am ET; and the third call will be on Thursday April 24 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of a draft letter to the SEC and FINRA relating to the implementation of SLATE reporting.

An FIF member has scheduled a call for Monday April 21 at 12 pm ET to discuss direct reporting to the MSRB RTRS reporting system. If you are interested in participating in this discussion and have not yet registered for this subgroup, please send a note to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and we will include you on this call.

The Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday April 22 at 11 am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges.

The next call for the SEC Transition Working Group will be on Wednesday April 23 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will discuss a revised draft letter to the SEC Commissioners that identifies current implementation issues for the SEC to address. 

The CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group will have its next call on Wednesday April 23 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion on the CAT fee dispute resolution process and the reporting of handling instructions values. 

FIF has scheduled a call for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group for Thursday April 24 at 10 am ET. The Working Group will review a draft comment letter in response to FINRA Regulatory Notice 25-04 (FINRA Launches Broad Review to Modernize Rules Regarding Member Firms and Associated Persons) to recommend changes to short interest reporting.

On Monday April 28 at 3 pm ET, FIF is hosting a webinar on Electronic Communications Surveillance. The moderator for the panel will be Holly Dito of Daiwa. The panelists will be Rajni Chidambaram of Interactive Brokers, Erin Clemens of StoneX, Donald McElligott of Global Relay, and Craig Warkol of the Schulte Roth law firm. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group to participate in this webinar. If you would like to participate in this webinar and are not a member of this Working Group, please update your FIF profile or contact This email address is being...