FIF has scheduled a call for the SEC Equity Market Proposals Working Group for Monday December 2 at 1 pm. The Working Group will continue the discussion of the implementation of the SEC’s amendments to Regulation NMS.

The next call for the Digital Asset Securities Working Group will be on Thursday December 12 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will review a draft letter to the SEC on custody by special purpose broker-dealers.

The Emerging Technologies Working Group will have its next call on Thursday December 12 at 4 pm ET. The spotlight presenter will be Bill Genovese of Kyndryl, who will discuss Quantum Computing in Capital Markets.

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Short Position Reporting. The FIF Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group continued its discussion of the implementation of short position reporting. FIF members provided an update to the Working Group on a November 15 call with SEC representatives relating to the calculation of Form SHO reportable amounts. The Working Group discussed next steps on this issue, including the submission by FIF of updated reporting scenarios. FIF submitted these updated scenarios to the SEC. On November 22 FIF members participated on a follow-up call with representatives from the SEC’s Division...

Join the ICE Team on Wednesday, December 4th at 11am ET for a one hour webinar on ICE’s Treasury Clearing model. Topics include: Client access models, Risk management, Clearing workflows and the Implementation timeline. Please register here for the webinar.

Exegy, the trading technology provider across the latency spectrum, announced the expansion of market data and execution coverage for nxAccess, its FPGA-based tick-to-trade solution, now supporting all Canadian equity exchanges. This enhancement enables seamless, ultra-low latency trading for a wide range of trading strategies in Canadian and US markets. , Exegy now extends nxAccess coverage to support both market data and order execution across all Canadian equities venues. This enhancement empowers traders in Canada to achieve rapid time-to-market and benefit from high-performance,...

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. announced the results of its inaugural survey of European retail investors, conducted jointly by Cboe Europe Derivatives (CEDX), Cboe's pan-European equity derivatives marketplace, and The Options Institute, Cboe's education arm. Overall, the survey reveals a strong interest among European retail investors in utilising exchange-traded options for risk management along with a clear need for education, highlighting an opportunity for the industry to address this demand. CEDX has been working with The Options Institute on ways to bring more awareness of financial...

Northern Trust has collaborated with CloudMargin to launch what it says is an enhanced active collateral solution aimed at helping investors manage their collateral more efficiently and flexibly. The bank says the solution will provide enhanced service capabilities, increased transparency on a real-time basis and platform resiliency. This includes automated asset selection based on flexible hierarchies, support of complex eligibility rules, access to real-time data through client portals, report writing capabilities, and full end-to-end automation.