Registration has closed for the FIF year-end event at Société Générale. If you are registered for the event, it will take place on December 5 at Société Générale’s offices at 245 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10167. Registration in the lobby and networking begins at 3 pm ET. The speaking engagement will be from 4-6 pm ET with refreshments and networking afterwards from 6-7:30 pm ET. After opening remarks from Greg Zielinski, the Chief Operating Officer of Société Générale Americas, there will be two panels. One panel will focus on technology, specifically trading and market data in the...

On Wednesday December 6 at 4:15 pm ET, FINRA CAT will host Part 2 of its webinar on 2024 CAIS Releases. In response to the FINRA CAT webinar, FIF has scheduled an additional CAIS Working Group call for this week. In addition to the regularly scheduled CAIS Working Group call on Wednesday December 6 at 11 am ET, FIF has scheduled an additional CAIS Working Group call for Thursday December 7 at 11 am ET.

The FIF CAT Monthly Update Working Group call for December will be on Thursday December 7 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will review guidance and updates from the CAT Plan Participants and FINRA CAT on CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT CAIS reporting 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 and CAT CAIS reporting.

At the request of an FIF member firm, FIF has scheduled a call for Thursday December 7 at 3 pm ET to discuss guidance received by the FIF member from the SEC and FINRA on conducting fully-paid lending from a foreign omnibus account. If you would like to participate in this discussion and have not previously responded on this, please send a note to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

An FIF member would like to discuss with other FIF members compliance with FINRA clock synchronization requirements for trading systems in the cloud (including FINRA clock synch requirements applicable for CAT). If you would like to participate in this discussion, please send a note to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Clock Synchronization Requirements for Debt Securities. FIF hosted a follow-up call to continue the prior FIF member discussion of implementing clock synchronization requirements for debt securities based on FINRA Rule 4590, Supplementary Material .02. Tax Information Reporting Working Group; Crypto, Digital Assets and Blockchain Working Group. Stevie Conlon, Robert Schwab and Anna Vayser of Wolters Kluwer reviewed the recent proposed IRS regulations for reporting digital asset transactions. Data and Technology Committee. The Data and Technology Committee reviewed capacity, latency and...

Interactive Brokers has become the first SFC-licensed securities broker to receive approval to allow retail clients to trade cryptocurrencies in Hong Kong according to a story in The Trade news. Eligible clients of Interactive Brokers Hong Kong trading cryptocurrencies will now be able to transact and manage their portfolio through a single platform with a unified view. The development will also allow clients to benefit from centralized cash management with the ability to trade cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum alongside stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds, mutual...

IEX Exchange updated ‘The Signal’, its predictive model that targets adverse price changes in April this year and has now expanded Version 6 into displayed trading. The Signal, also known as the crumbling quote indicator, was introduced to predict which way the market will move in order to protect customers from trading at a price that will imminently become stale. In April the new version of The Signal was introduced for D-Peg, P-Peg, and C-Peg, IEX’s non-displayed Signal-enabled pegged order types. Since November 10, 2023 version six of The Signal has applied to all D-Limit orders as a...

IPC, a leading provider of electronic trading, trading communications and ‘as a service’ infrastructure solutions, has added a European derivatives exchange to its expanding portfolio of connected exchanges and trading venues. IPC customers using Connexus Extranet can now access market data across Fixed Income, Equities, Equity Indices, ETF/ETCs, FX and Crypto. Firms such as market makers, high frequency trading firms, quant and program trading firms requiring ultra-low latency data delivery and distribution can further benefit from data server co-location within IPC’s Equinix FR2 data...