The Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday July 30 at 11 am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges. The spotlight presenter will be Mark Davies of S3, who will discuss recent and upcoming implementations, including FINRA Rules 6151 and 6470 and SEC Rule 605.

FIF has scheduled two call this week for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group. The first call will be on Tuesday July 30 at 1 pm ET; the second call will be on Thursday August 1 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will continue the review of a draft follow-up FIF letter to the SEC relating to the implementation of short position reporting.

The Data and Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday July 31 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets. A representative from MIAX will discuss the launch of the MIAX Sapphire exchange in this months spotlight presentation.

The CAT CAIS call for this week will be on Wednesday July 31 at 11 am ET. The CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group call for this week will be on Wednesday July 31 at 2 pm ET.

The CAT Monthly Update Working Group call for August will be on Thursday August 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 the next call for the Tax Information Reporting Working Group for Thursday August 1 at 3 pm ET. Stevie Conlon and other representatives from Wolters Kluwer will review and discuss the final IRS digital asset broker reporting regulations.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Securities Lending Transparency Working Group for Tuesday August 6 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will continue its review of a draft FIF comment letter in response to the FINRA rule filing to adopt rules for the new Securities Lending and Transparency Engine (SLATE) system and the draft FINRA Participant Specification for SLATE.

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FIF OFR Repo Reporting Working Group. The OFR Repo Reporting Working Group discussed issues and questions from FIF members relating to Rule 15a-6 transactions, the start date for testing, onboarding for firms with multiple reporting entities, cross-border scenarios involving allocations, cash and position snapshot times, tri-party repos that involve a custodian other than BNY, and reporting the rate field for certain floating rate scenarios. FIF Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group. This past week, FIF hosted two calls for this Working Group to continue discussing the...