David Schwimmer, CEO, sees strong growth in the coming year. “We have started the year well, delivering another quarter of solid growth consistent with our plans. We drove the strongest performances in FTSE Russell, Risk Intelligence and Tradeweb, and our Equities business returned to growth. The rapid pace of innovation continues, with new product launches across LSEG throughout 2024. We continue to make strong progress in our Microsoft partnership, with a number of products expected to be in external pilot or general release this half. We are now picking up the pace of migrating our...

Cboe Global Markets, announced plans to refocus its digital asset business to leverage its core strengths in derivatives, technology and product innovation while realizing operating efficiencies for both Cboe and its clients. These changes are being made as part of Cboe’s strategic review, taking into consideration the lack of regulatory clarity in the digital space, and are aligned with Cboe’s longer term strategy. Cboe plans to transition and fully integrate its digital asset derivatives, currently offered by Cboe Digital, into its existing Global Derivatives and Clearing businesses. This...

On Monday May 6th, FIF will hold an in-person event at the offices of OTC Markets (300 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10282). There will be two panels. Our first panel of the evening will be “Digital Assets - Regulations, Processing & Technology”. The panel will cover public & private securities from issuance to trading and settlement and custody. On the panel will be Shawn Sloves of Fundamental Interactions, Tom Sullivan of Société Générale and Dan Zinn of OTC Markets. The panel will be moderated by FIF Advisory Chair, Tom Jordan. The second panel is on “Current Regulatory...

FIF has scheduled the next call for the FIF Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Interest Reporting Working Group for Monday April 22 at 11 am 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 Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday April 23 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 Rule 606 Working Group for Tuesday April 23 at 1 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss implementation of FINRA Rule 6151 (centralized reporting of Rule 606(a) reports to FINRA), including the Filing Guide published by FINRA, and issues and questions from FIF members relating to Rule 606.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Rule 605 Working Group for Tuesday April 23 at 3 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its review and discussion of the changes to Rule 605 that the SEC adopted on March 6. The Working Group will also review and discuss a draft FIF letter to the SEC relating to implementation of the changes to Rule 605.

The Data and Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday April 24 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets. The spotlight presenter will be Bill Bierds of the BCC Group, who will discuss The Future of Market Data in the Cloud. FIF has also invited the members of the Emerging Technologies Working Group to participate on this call.

The next call for the CAT CAIS Working Group will be on Wednesday April 24 at 11 am ET. The next call for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group will be on Wednesday April 24 at 2 pm ET.