FIF is pleased to welcome Trumid Financial LLC to the FIF Community.

On March 9 FIF submitted a comment letter on the recent rule proposal by the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research (OFR) to require daily reporting for repos that are executed bilaterally and not centrally-cleared. FIF would like to thank the members of the newly-formed OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for their participation in the drafting of this comment letter.

FIF has scheduled a call for Monday March 13 at 2 pm ET to discuss CAT reporting for RFQ responses. Given the focused subject matter, FIF is not sending an invite to the full CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group. If you want to participate on this call, 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 on this call.

An FIF member would like to discuss with other FIF members LOPR reporting for an OTC options call spread that involves a sequence of daily maturing options. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would like to participate in this discussion.

FIF has scheduled a call for Tuesday March 14 at 1 pm ET to discuss a draft FIF comment letter on the SEC rule proposal on Regulation NMS: Minimum Pricing Increments, Access Fees and Transparency of Better Priced Orders. FIF has invited members of the SEC Equity Market Proposals Working Group to participate on this call.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the TRACE/Fixed Income Working Group for Tuesday March 14 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss recent TRACE FAQ updates by FINRA relating to reporting the portfolio trade modifier and TRACE reporting for foreign sovereign bonds. The Working Group also will discuss questions from FIF members relating to TRACE reporting for Reg S transactions and currency conversion for TRACE reporting.

FIF has scheduled a call for Wednesday March 15 at 1 pm ET to discuss a revised draft of the FIF comment letter on the SEC’s recent rule proposal on Disclosure of Order Execution Information. FIF has invited members of the Rule 605 and Rule 606 Working Groups to participate on this call.  

On March 3 the SEC published an order to seek further comment on the FINRA rule proposal on disclosure of order routing information for OTC equity securities and NMS securities. FIF has scheduled a call for the Rule 606 Working Group for Thursday March 16 at 1 pm ET to discuss this SEC order.  

FIF has scheduled a call for Thursday March 16 at 2 pm ET to discuss a revised draft of the FIF comment letter on the SEC’s Order Competition Rule proposal. FIF has invited members of the SEC Equity Market Proposals Working Group to participate on this call.