FIF has scheduled a joint call for the SEC FINRA Regulations Working Group and the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group for Wednesday July 22 at 11 am ET. The Workings Groups will review an updated Regulatory Implementations Presentation and Calendar, including updates on the following topics: overnight regulatory halts for corporate actions; FINRA rule filing to extend the TRF operating hours to 23x5; Options Regulatory Fee; Treasury clearing; tokenized equities; Financial Data Transparency Act; and Trump accounts.

The Data & Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday July 29 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets. The spotlight presenters will be Sun Kim and Dana Rutherford of Nasdaq MRX, who will discuss the recent SEC approval of Nasdaq MRX’s rule filing for extended trading hours for eligible equity and index options.

FIF has scheduled a webinar on Trade Surveillance for Thursday July 30 at 4 pm ET. The moderator for the webinar will be Scott Trilling of Fidelity. The panelists will be Ben Calev of BXS, Mark Davies of S3, Chris Montagnino of Jordan & Jordan, and Ted Karn of The Karn Group. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group for this webinar. If you would like to submit any questions for the webinar to be raised anonymously, please send them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Regulatory Implementations Calendar. FIF hosted a joint call for the SEC FINRA Regulations Working Group and the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group to review an updated Regulatory Implementations Presentation, including updates on the following topics: extension for implementation of Reg NMS tick size and access fee changes; SIP Plan updates for overnight trading; price bands for overnight trading; overnight regulatory halts for corporate actions; CT Plan fee filing; CT Plan proposed cap on quoting to trading revenue; Order Protection Rule; CAT; Rule 605; new exchanges and exchange...

According to The TRADE News, Bloomberg has launched a new multi-asset pre-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA) solution, to integrate execution intelligence into proprietary trading workflows, The TRADE can reveal. The move marks the first time that firms will be able to programmatically access Bloomberg’s pre-trade TCA at scale through an API. Through this integration – spanning both pre-trade and in-trade execution intelligence and analytics specifically for fixed income and equities workflows – firms can apply a more consistent analytical framework across a broader range of trading...

According to Markets Media, at the start of this year JJ Kinahan joined Cboe Global Markets as head of retail expansion and alternative investment products. On June 23, Cboe said in a statement that it was launching the first products in Cboe Predicts, its new prediction markets suite, with the aim of introducing retail traders to the options market. Kinahan told Markets Media that the new contracts are aimed at retail traders who use prediction markets but have not traded options.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the SEC FINRA Regulations Working Group and the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group for Tuesday July 7 at 2 pm ET. The Workings Groups will review an updated Regulatory Implementations Presentation and Calendar, including updates on the following topics: extension for implementation of Reg NMS tick size and access fee changes; SIP Plan updates for overnight trading; price bands for overnight trading; overnight regulatory halts for corporate actions; CT Plan fee filing; CT Plan proposed cap on quoting to trading revenue; Order Protection Rule; CAT;...

The next call for the 24x7 Trading Working Group will be on Wednesday July 8 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will discuss UTP FAQs and updates to the UTP technical documentation relating to extended exchange trading hours, the SEC approvals of the SIP Plan amendments, and TRF reporting questions. 

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT Reference Database Working Groups for Wednesday July 8 at 2 pm ET. The Working Groups will continue their discussion of comment letters submitted in response to the SEC Concept Release on CAT and Other Audit Trails and Data Sources. The Working Groups will also discuss the tradingSession field and reporting of derived values that are problematic for Industry Members.