The Data & Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday June 26 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets.

FIF has scheduled a call for the CAT CAIS Working Group for Wednesday June 26 at 11 am ET. FIF will provide an update on an FIF member call with the SEC relating to the future retirement of Electronic Blue Sheets (for equities and options) and broker-dealer recordkeeping requirements for large traders. The Working Group will also discuss feedback from FINRA CAT representatives during a call on June 21 and issues and questions from FIF members.

FIF has scheduled a call for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for Thursday June 27 at 1 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss issues and questions from FIF members relating to implementation of the new requirement to report non-centrally cleared bilateral repos.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the CFTC Larger Trader Reporting subgroup for Tuesday July 2 at 11 am ET. The subgroup will continue its review and discussion of the CFTC’s recent amendments to the CFTC Large Trader Reporting requirements and the Part 17 Guidebook published by the CFTC. If you are interested in this topic and are not a member of this subgroup, please send a note to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and we will include you in this discussion.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Securities Lending Transparency Working Group for Tuesday July 2 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its review and discussion of the SLATE Participant Specification published by FINRA.

FIF OFR Repo Reporting Working Group. FIF hosted a call for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group to review and make final changes to the FIF letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (OFR). The letter requests clarification on various issues and questions relating to the new requirement to report repos that are executed bilaterally and not centrally-cleared (NCCBR repos). FIF submitted the letter to the OFR on June 20. FIF Rule 605 Working Group. The Rule 605 Working Group reviewed and made final changes to an FIF  letter to the SEC relating to implementation...

Charles Schwab’s retail trading experience, Schwab Trading Powered by Ameritrade™, is now available to traders in the UK. Charles Schwab, with 35.1 million active brokerage accounts globally, has combined the award-winning thinkorswim® suite of trading platforms with the trading capabilities on Schwab.com and Schwab Mobile, extensive trading education and specialised support services to provide traders of all types and levels with an exceptional holistic trading experience.

Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. announced the integration of its global Futures and Options (F&O) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Platform with Transaction Network Services (TNS), a global provider of mission-critical infrastructure for financial markets. TNS will enhance the functionality of Broadridge's F&O platform for the derivatives market by providing global exchange connectivity for order routing and market data access as the vendor of record.

Bloomberg has launched a new data offering on the Bloomberg Terminal which collates the data that companies have started to report as part of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The new offering will also be available via Data License for scalable enterprise-wide use according to a story in The Trade news. CSRD increases the scope of firms required to disclose ESG data publicly and widens reporting to more than 1,000 metrics covering both financial and impact materiality criteria. Once reporting requirements begin in 2025, Bloomberg stated that the new data...