On September 24, FIF submitted a letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research relating to implementation of the new requirement to report non-centrally cleared bilateral repos. FIF would like to thank the members of the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for Monday September 30 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will review a draft FIF letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research relating to the reporting of non-centrally cleared bilateral repos. The Working Group will also continue its review of a draft summary of issues previously discussed by the FIF Working Group.

On Thursday, October 2nd: Join n-Tier and TabbFORUM at 11:30AM ET to discuss the impacts of the upcoming Rule 13f-2 changes and how to ensure your firm is prepared. Register here.

The CAT Monthly Update Working Group call for October will be on Tuesday October 1 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 Tuesday October 1 at 3 pm ET to review the Reg NMS amendments recently adopted by the SEC. FIF has invited the members of the Data and Technology and Front Office Committees and the SEC Equity Market Proposals Working Group to participate on this call.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Position Reporting Working Group for Wednesday October 2 at 10 am ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of the implementation of Form SHO reporting, including feedback from a discussion with the SEC.

FIF has scheduled the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group call for this week for Wednesday October 2 at 2 pm ET. FIF will not have a CAIS Working Group call this week.  

FIF has scheduled a call for the TRACE Working Group for Wednesday October 2 at 3 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss the recent approvals by the SEC of the FINRA and MSRB rule filings that provide for one-minute reporting for TRACE and RTRS, subject to exceptions for manual activity and firms with limited trading activity.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Rule 606 Working Group for Monday October 7 at 1 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss feedback from the SEC relating to Rule 606(a) reporting of the percentage of orders routed to different venues.