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 webinar on best execution for Monday October 7 at 3 pm ET. The moderator will be Chris Montagnino of Jordan & Jordan. The panelists will be from BXS, S3, The Karn Group and Trading Technologies. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance and Surveillance, Rule 605 and Rule 606 Working Groups to participate in this webinar.

Short Position Reporting. The Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group continued its discussion of the implementation of the SEC’s new requirement for reporting of short positions. OFR Repo Reporting Working Group. The OFR Repo Reporting Working Group discussed comments and questions for the OFR relating to the rejection of file and record submissions, reporting the securities value at inception, transaction by a U.S. branch of a foreign bank, reporting the start date and end date fields, reporting by an investment adviser, reporting the floating rate reset frequency...

Intercontinental Exchange and IPC Systems announced the launch of ICE Voice. This cloud-based audio solution is now live through ICE Chat, ICE’s instant messaging system for commodities, offering a seamless communications platform for traders and global market participants. ICE Voice leverages IPC’s Connexus Unigy private cloud platform to integrate always-on, persistent open connections with ICE Chat’s extensive network of over 120,000 users. According to a story in MarketsMedia news, ICE Chat can support full audio recording with configurable retention and anywhere, anytime...

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a new cloud-based, ready-to-use enterprise data solution. Named DataScope Warehouse, the new solution offers cloud-based access to LSEG’s fixed income and equity data records. According to a story in The Trade news, the solution supports Structured Query Language (SQL), allowing users to explore and query the pricing and reference database. Cloud collaboration is also facilitated by the solution, offering access to LSEG data via any cloud partner. LSEG customers will benefit from immediate and total access via a direct share to the full...

Miami International Holdings (MIH) and Bloomberg Index Services have entered into a licensing agreement to develop a suite of index futures, options on futures, and cash options products. According to a story in The Trade news, the offering is based on Bloomberg Indices’ portfolio of benchmarks and combines MIH’s expertise in operating the relevant exchanges with Bloomberg’s advanced technological capabilities to “bring much-needed competition to the equity index derivatives industry,” said Thomas Gallagher, chair and chief executive of MIH. In the first instance, MIH will offer...

State Street has launched a new decision augmentation tool leveraging BestX transaction cost analysis and its FX Connect trading platform to optimize clients trade execution. Named BestXecutor, the new tool offers FX Connect clients actionable pre-trade analytics to optimize request-for-stream and algo execution, embedded into a client’s FX Connect workflow and integrated with its GlobalLink Digital platform. According to a story in The Trade news, BestXecutor is designed to help clients quickly evaluate every deal versus BestX TCA factors. Other benefits of the tool include streamlined...

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 another panelist to be named later. The managing technology risk panel will be moderated by Tom Jordan of...

On September 9, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC in support of the rule filing by the CAT Plan Participants to exclude certain verbal activity from CAT reporting. FIF would like to thank the members of the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.