Laser Digital is driving forward with plans to launch its trading platform in the first quarter of this year despite according to a story in The Block news. The digital assets firm, which is a subsidiary of banking giant Nomura, launched last year with plans for three core verticals: trading, asset management and venture capital. Laser Digital’s most mature vertical is its venture capital arm which allows for more digital asset investments to be made across a wider range of industry themes. The firm’s institutional trading services will be the second of the verticals to...

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) announced it has expanded its environmental, social and governance (ESG) Company Data in the Asia-Pacific region and now offers global coverage of 16,000 companies across 105 countries. With this expansion, ICE provides high-quality, granular data mapped to approximately 1.4 million corporate equity and fixed income securities. ICE’s ESG Company Data covers the most broadly tracked global and regional indices. With the Asia-Pacific coverage expansion, ICE now provides data on all the constituents included in the most widely used benchmarks in the...

State Street Corporation announced the launch of a Financial Information eXchange (FIX) application programming interface (API) for its Fund Connect ETF platform, a global online portal for the creation and redemption of ETFs within the firm’s GlobalLink product suite. The FIX enhancement, now available to all participants on the platform, offers connectivity and electronic communication through an integral industry protocol used in electronic trading. This will allow market participants to send orders directly from their order management system (OMS) to the Fund Connect ETF platform...

Bloomberg announced the launch of ETF list trading via its ETF Request for Quote service (RFQe), expanding existing functionality that enables clients to trade multiple securities with a single click. The new offering is fully integrated with Bloomberg's equities execution management system (EMSX), providing seamless integration into existing client workflows with Bloomberg's broader infrastructure and suite of trading solutions. RFQe provides clients with improved pricing and liquidity across multi-asset ETFs with more than 100 liquidity...

On February 3 FIF submitted a supplemental comment letter on the FINRA rule filing with the SEC to require disclosure of order routing information for OTC equities (SR-FINRA-2022-031). The supplemental comment letter relates specifically to proposed reporting for OTC Link workflows. FIF would like to thank the members of the FIF Rule 606 Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.

FIF has scheduled a call for Tuesday February 7 at 11 am ET to continue the discussion of the SEC’s Order Competition Rule proposal. FIF has invited members of the Data and Technology Committee, the Front Office Committee and the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group to participate on this call. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of any of these groups, please update your FIF profile or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The next call for the Rule 605 Working Group will be on Tuesday February 7 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of the SEC’s recent rule proposal on Disclosure of Order Execution Information. FIF also has invited members of the Rule 606 Working Group for this call. If you are not a member of the Rule 605 Working Group and would like to participate on these calls, please update your FIF profile or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

FIF has scheduled a call for Thursday February 9 at 11 am ET to continue the discussion of a recent proposal by the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research to require daily reporting for non-centrally cleared bilateral repos. The Working Group also will review the first draft of an FIF comment letter on this topic. FIF has invited members of the new OFR Repo Reporting Working Group and the TRACE/Fixed Income Working Group to participate on this call. If you would like to join the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group, please update your FIF profile or contact This email address is...

FIF has scheduled a call for Thursday February 9 at 2 pm ET to continue the discussion of the recent SEC rule proposal on Minimum Pricing Increments, Access Fees and Transparency of Better Priced Orders. FIF has invited members of the Data and Technology Committee, the Front Office Committee and the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group to participate on this call. If you would like to participate on this call and are not a member of any of these groups, please update your FIF profile or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..