FIF has scheduled a call for Thursday June 20 at 2 pm ET to discuss the CFTC’s recent amendments to the CFTC Large Trader Reporting requirements. If you are interested in this topic, 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 OFR Repo Reporting Working Group. FIF hosted two calls this past week for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group. The Working Group continued its review and discussion of a draft FIF letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (OFR) requesting 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 Rule 605 Working Group. The Rule 605 Working Group continued its review of a draft FIF comment letter to the SEC relating to implementation of the changes to...

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FIF is pleased to announce a new member of our Advisory Committee with the addition of Fidelity’s Krista Ryan. Krista is a Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel at Fidelity Investments where she manages a team of attorneys supporting Fidelity’s institutional brokerage trading desks (across equities, fixed income, FOREX, and prime brokerage/securities finance), Fidelity’s brokerage operations including regulatory reporting, and Fidelity’s brokerage technology groups.  Her team also supports Fidelity’s mutual fund supermarket and transfer agent.  Prior to her current...

FIF has scheduled two calls this week for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group. The first call will be on Monday June 10 at 2 pm ET; the second call will be on Thursday June 13 at 1 pm ET. The agenda for the calls will be to continue the review and discussion of a draft letter to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research requesting guidance on various implementation questions and issues relating to the new requirement to report repos that are executed bilaterally and not centrally-cleared (NCCBR repos).

FIF has scheduled a call for the Securities Lending Transparency Working Group for Monday June 10 at 3 pm ET to review and discuss the Participant Specification for SLATE recently published by FINRA.

FIF has scheduled two calls this week for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group. The first call will be on Tuesday June 11 at 11 am ET; the second call will be on Thursday June 13 at 3 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its review and discussion of a draft FIF letter to the SEC requesting guidance on the implementation of SEC Rule 13f-2 on Short Position and Short Activity Reporting. The Working Group will also discuss issues and questions from FIF members relating to the implementation of Rule 13f-2.

FIF has scheduled an additional call this week for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group. The call will be on Tuesday June 11 at 1 pm ET and will focus on reviewing and discussing a draft FIF exemptive request to the SEC relating to linkage of representative to customer orders and linkage of order fulfillments to representative and principal orders. This call will be in addition to the regularly-scheduled weekly call for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group, which will be on Wednesday June 12 at 2 pm ET. The next call for the CAT CAIS Working Group will be on Wednesday June 12...

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Rule 605 Working Group for Tuesday June 11 at 3 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its review and discussion of a draft FIF comment letter to the SEC relating to implementation of the changes to Rule 605 that the SEC adopted on March 6.