On Tuesday January 9 at 3 pm ET, Penny Christophorou and Ignacio Sandoval of the Morgan Lewis law firm will review the rule recently adopted by the SEC to expand centralized clearing of Treasuries. FIF has invited members of the following Committees and Working Groups to participate on this call: Back Office Committee; Compliance and Surveillance Working Group; Financial Risk Regulations Working Group; and TRACE / Fixed Income Working Group. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of any of these Committees or Working Groups, please update your FIF profile or...

FIF has scheduled a call for Thursday January 11 at 3 pm ET to review a digest of rules recently adopted or proposed by the SEC and FINRA. The rules are organized based on the following seven categories: Technology, Operations and Finance; Equities; Options; Fixed Income; Security-Based Swaps; Multiple Asset Classes; and Compliance and Proceedings. The January 11 call will focus on the first two categories. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group and the SEC FINRA Regulations Working Group to participate on this call. If you would like to participate on...

FIF has scheduled a call for the Section 31 subgroup for Tuesday January 16 at 3 pm ET. The subgroup will discuss next steps after the recent FIF member call with FINRA representatives to discuss enhancing the reconciliation process for the FINRA Regulatory Transaction Fee (charged by FINRA to reimburse FINRA for the Section 31 fee it pays to the SEC). If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of this subgroup, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Digital Assets Working Group for Wednesday January 24 at 3 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss compliance with disclosure requirements for digital assets, including SEC Rule 15c2-11. Time permitting, the Working Group will also discuss reporting requirements for digital assets. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of the Digital Assets Working Group, please update your FIF profile or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

On Monday January 29 at 2 pm ET, Satish Kini and Robert Dura of the Debevoise law firm will review 2023 developments relating to anti-money laundering and sanctions regulations and key issues to focus on for 2024. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group and the SEC FINRA Regulations Working Group to participate on this call. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of either Working Group, please update your FIF profile or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

At the request of FIF members, FIF has created a subgroup for members to discuss issues relating to T+1 implementation, including the new requirements relating to same-day allocations. If you are interested in participating in this subgroup, please send a note to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

FIF CAT Monthly Update Working Group. The Working Group reviewed 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 reviewed the current areas of focus for FIF members and the current open issues for CAT Transaction Reporting, CAT CAIS reporting and CAT billing. FIF CAIS Working Group. The CAIS Working Group discussed the unavailability of the CAIS system from January 5 to January 8. The Working Group continued its review of the December 21 updates to the CAIS Technical...

SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. announced that Harbor Capital Advisors has selected SS&C's front-to-back investment management platform for the Harbor Multi-Asset Explorer ETF (the "ETF"). Harbor Capital is an asset manager with $45.1 billion in assets under management. Harbor Capital uses Eze OMS for trading and has upgraded to a seamless front-to-back solution with the addition of SS&C Geneva for fund accounting and daily operational support for certain ETFs. The offering tightly links Harbor's front, middle, and back offices with a unified data set and in-depth...

The Central Bank of Kenya has launched Bloomberg’s Electronic Matching System (EMS), BMatch, for interbank trading in the local foreign exchange market. Specifically, the solution offers spot matching functionality for US dollar against Kenyan shilling, allowing anonymous orders to be placed into a central limit order book. These orders are displayed and subsequently matched with counterparty orders based on mutual trading limits and other parameters configured by each bank according to a story in The Trade news. In addition, BMatch is able to be integrated with each banks’ middle...