Bloomberg announced a strategic initiative to collaborate with General Index (GX) benchmark provider. With this initiative, all Bloomberg Terminal customers can now access a selection of GX's robust, reliable pricing for the world's commodity markets, with 400+ all-to-see prices, including oil spot assessments. The addition of GX pricing to The Bloomberg Terminal strengthens Bloomberg's commodity pricing data that spans from spot pricing to OTC curves. This collaboration democratizes access to commodity pricing data for all financial participants that have exposure to the commodity...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s digital-asset team signaled it’s open to bolstering staff strength and flagged the potential for blockchain technology to improve the functioning of markets such as private equity. The team’s global head Mathew McDermott said the bank remains “hugely supportive” of exploring blockchain applications and that the digital-asset division will hire “as appropriate” this year. McDermott was speaking in Hong Kong after the city utilized Goldman’s tokenization platform, GS DAP, to sell inaugural digital green bonds. GS DAP is a private blockchain rather than a public one...

To better help companies comply with the SEC's Tailored Shareholder Reports rule, global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. has developed a new, technology-enabled template and end-to-end process solution for fund companies and fund administrators. This new digital template greatly simplifies the steps involved in creating and providing the SEC's new Tailored Shareholder Reports. The end-to-end solution for funds and fund administrators offers iXBRL tagging, SEC-compliant layered web hosting, and comprehensive SEC filings, along with a personalized communication...

FIF has scheduled a call for Tuesday March 7 at 11 am ET to discuss a revised draft of an FIF comment letter on a recent proposal by the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research to require daily reporting for non-centrally cleared bilateral repos. FIF has invited members of the new OFR Repo Reporting Working Group and the TRACE/Fixed Income Working Group to participate on this call. The comment period ends on March 10. This is the last call for this Working Group prior to the submission of the FIF comment letter.

The next call for the Rule 605 and 606 Working Groups will be on Tuesday March 7 at 3 pm ET. The Working Groups will discuss the first draft of an FIF comment letter on the SEC’s recent rule proposal on Disclosure of Order Execution Information.  

The FIF CAT Monthly Update Working Group call for March will be on Thursday March 9 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 also will review the current areas of focus for FIF members and the current open issues for CAT transaction reporting and CAT CAIS reporting.

FIF has scheduled a call for Thursday March 9 at 3 pm ET to continue the discussion of the SEC’s Order Competition Rule proposal. As notified last week, the invitation for this call has only been sent to the members of the new FIF SEC Equity Market Proposals Working Group. Please update your FIF profile or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you want to be added to this new Working Group.

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.

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 equities securities and NMS securities. FIF will schedule a call for next week for the Rule 606 Working Group to discuss, with date and time to be determined.