The FIF Back Office Committee will meet on Tuesday, November 9 at 11am ET to review applicable FICC, DTC, NSCC, SEC, MSRB, OCC, IRS and FINRA updates during the past month.

On Thursday, November 18 at 3pm ET, the FIF Tax Information Reporting Working Group will meet for a spotlight presentation from Wolters Kluwer on SPAC tax issues. Stevie Conlon, Cynthia Lapins and Robert Schwaba will be the presenters. If you are not subscribed to this group and would like to listen in, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and FIF would be happy to forward you an invite.

The CAIS Working Group will meet on Monday, November 8 at 11am ET to complete the Working Group’s review of the most recent updates to the CAIS Reporting Scenarios. This call is in addition to the standing Wednesday and Friday CAIS Working Group calls for this week.

FIF Rule 606 Working Group. The Rule 606 Working Group continued its discussion of FINRA Regulatory Notice 21-35, “FINRA Requests Comment on Proposed Order Routing Disclosure Requirements for OTC Equity Securities and Potential Steps to Facilitate Investor Access to Current Order Routing Disclosures for NMS Securities.” FIF CAT Committee. The CAT Committee reviewed guidance and updates from the SROs on CAT transaction reporting and CAT CAIS reporting during the prior month. The CAT Committee reviewed the current areas of focus for FIF members and the current open issues for CAT...

MayStreet, a market data technology and content provider, announced the launch of the High Performance Query (HPQ) API. The new API complements the web-based Analytics Workbench and the firm’s existing APIs as an additional access method for tapping into MayStreet’s Market Data Lake, a cloud-based repository of ultra-high-quality global, cross-asset exchange data. With the HPQ API, clients can instantly stream near real-time and historical full-depth data at distinct time intervals of their choosing, resulting in significant bandwidth and compute resource savings by not...

Goldman Sachs will work with Digital Asset’s core technology to develop its end-to-end tokenised asset infrastructure supporting the end-to-end digital life cycle across multiple asset classes on permissioned and public blockchains. The investment bank will use Daml – Digital Asset’s platform for building multi-party applications that run across new technologies and legacy infrastructure – to move its tokenization plans forward, a concept the financial services community sees as creating efficiencies and opportunities in the future for both traditional and illiquid assets. According to a...

IEX Exchange has made a regulatory filing to charge for market data for the first time in its history according to a story in MarketsMedia news. The exchange has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to introduce market data fees from January 3, the first trading day of 2022. The filing said: “In general, IEX believes that exchanges, in setting fees of all types, should meet very high standards of transparency to demonstrate why each new fee or fee increase meets the Exchange Act requirements that fees be reasonable, equitably allocated, not unfairly discriminatory, and not...

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) announced that ICE Bonds has connected with Adroit Trading Technologies, an order and execution management system (OEMS) for sophisticated over-the-counter-focused buyside traders. ICE Bonds’ fixed income over the counter marketplace will provide Adroit users with deep liquidity and price discovery across multiple protocols, including portfolio trading, request for quote (RFQ) and click-to-trade. Adroit’s technology enables buyside traders to identify relevant OTC liquidity, streamline complex workflows, and trade electronically across dealers and...

Cboe Global Markets announced plans to introduce a new dealer-to-dealer electronic trading platform for On-The-Run U.S. Treasuries. The platform (“Cboe Fixed Income”) will be Cboe’s first cash U.S. Fixed Income product offering, further diversifying and expanding its products, services and technology offerings into new markets and geographies around the world. Cboe Fixed Income is planned for launch in the second quarter of 2022, subject to regulatory approvals. The new trading platform is designed to better enable dealers in U.S. Treasuries to efficiently source liquidity and trade in...