FIF has scheduled the next call for the Financial Data Transparency Act Working Group for Tuesday October 8 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will review and discuss the first draft of a comment letter on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking published by the SEC and other financial regulators.

OFR Repo Reporting Working Group. FIF provided an update on a call with the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (OFR) relating to implementation of the new requirement for reporting of non-centrally cleared bilateral repos. The OFR Repo Reporting Working Group discussed calculating the outstanding commitment for inter-affiliate transactions, calculating the outstanding commitment for the end date of a repo, reporting the minimum maturity date for terminated open repos, reporting for Rule 15a-6 transactions, and reporting the floating rate reset frequency. The Working Group...

FIF is excited to announce our annual Chicago event, sponsored by Cboe Global Markets. After opening remarks from Kevin Carrai of Cboe Global Markets, there will be two panels, one focusing on options trading and market developments and the other focusing on managing technology risk. For the options trading and market developments panel, the moderator will be Mark Davies of S3 and the panelists will be Angelo Evangelou of Cboe Global Markets, Ben Londergan of Simplex Trading and Brian McLaughlin of IPC. The managing technology risk panel will be moderated by Tom Jordan of Jordan &...

FIF has scheduled the next call for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for Monday September 23 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will review a revised draft FIF letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (the “OFR”) relating to the reporting of non-centrally cleared bilateral repos. The Working Group will also discuss issues and questions from FIF members and a draft summary of issues previously discussed by the FIF Working Group.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Financial Data Transparency Act Working Group for Monday September 23 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking published by the SEC and other financial regulators.

The Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday September 24 at 11 am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Tax Information Reporting Working Group for Tuesday September 24 at 3 pm ET. Stevie Conlon and other representatives from Wolters Kluwer will discuss the new draft Form 1099-DA for digital assets.

FIF has scheduled the CAIS Working Group for this week for Wednesday September 25 at 11 am ET. FIF has scheduled the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group call for this week for Wednesday September 25 at 2 pm ET.

An FIF member would like to discuss whether FINRA could develop a technology-focused examination for technology professionals who require the Operations Professional registration as an alternative to the current Series 99 examination, which is operations focused. FIF created a sub-group for this topic and hosted a call in August. FIF has scheduled the next call for this sub-group for Thursday September 26 at 1 pm ET. If you are interested in participating in this discussion and are not a member of this sub-group, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need...