The CAT Monthly Update Working Group call for April will be on Thursday April 10 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will review guidance and updates from the CAT Plan Participants and FINRA CAT on CAT Transaction Reporting, CAT CAIS and CAT billing during the prior month. The Working Group will also review the current areas of focus for FIF members and the current open issues for CAT Transaction Reporting, CAT CAIS reporting and CAT billing.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Equity Market Regulations Working Group for Monday April 14 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss the testing and implementation process for the upcoming changes to round lot sizes and dissemination of odd lot data.

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...

The New York Stock Exchange, part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc announced that NYSE Texas is officially open for business, becoming the first securities exchange to operate in Texas, with Trump Media & Technology Group as the first new company to join the NYSE community through a listing on NYSE Texas. “We are thrilled to open NYSE Texas to corporate issuers and to welcome Trump Media & Technology Group to our NYSE community through a NYSE Texas listing,” said Lynn Martin, President, NYSE Group. “This new offering, which we announced just last month, will allow companies to...

Bloomberg has enhanced its front-office solution with the inclusion of a unified pipeline for real-time events, news insights, market data, pricing, and analytics. The Real-Time Events Data offering focuses on the option to subscribe to real-time, push-based updates which “only cover events of interest”, as opposed to “a firehose of information” – aiming to automate the full spectrum of workflows according to a story in The Trade news. Specifically, the notification-driven market event feeds extracts and normalizes data from unstructured sources and enhanced the Bloomberg Market Data Feed...

State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management arm of State Street Corporation, announced that it has made an equity investment in Ethic, a technology-driven asset management platform that powers personalized, values-aligned, and tax-smart investing for financial intermediaries. SSGA and Ethic also announced a strategic partnership to deliver customized investment solutions at scale to SSGA’s institutional and financial intermediary clients. Key features of the partnership include:  Innovative investment solutions – the creation and management of customized separately...

Data harmonization is key when it comes to implementing AI and digital assets with 80% of firms making moderate-to-large investments in AI this year; 50% of executives believe there will be a significant adoption of digital assets and ledger technology within the capital markets over the next several years a study by Broadridge Financial shows. While 58% of financial services technology and operations executives agree that a clear data strategy leads to the maximum rate of return on technology investments, 40% admit to having data quality issues. Almost half (41%) of executives feel their...

Interactive Brokers, an automated global electronic broker, announced the addition of four popular cryptocurrency tokens to its trading platform: Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), Ripple (XRP), and Dogecoin (DOGE). These new tokens join Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), providing investors access to some of the most actively traded digital assets. SOL, ADA, XRP and DOGE are available to clients with an account at Zero Hash LLC, and SOL is available to clients with an account at Paxos Trust Company. Eligible clients of Interactive Brokers LLC (IB LLC) and...

BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business, a leading global custodian with USD 13.7 trillion in assets under custody, announced the further integration of its multi-asset servicing capabilities with Bloomberg AIM, a leading buy-side order and investment management technology solution. The extended feature enables additional direct, standardized data connectivity between Securities Services’ global fund accounting solutions and Bloomberg AIM, facilitating front-to-back data integrations for mutual buy-side clients. This improvement is part of the bank’s continued effort to develop its...