FIF is pleased to announce our first ever Boston event. The live, in-person event will take place on September 2nd from 5-8 pm ET at the Fidelity Investments offices. The event will be co-sponsored by Fidelity Capital Markets and LeveL Markets. The first panel will be titled: Equities, Options, Fixed Income, Technology, and Data in an Atkins Administration. The second panel will be titled: Crypto and 24X Trading- How do Transparency, Quality & Controls compare to current Equity Market Structure? Panelists for these two panels will be announced soon. Space is limited, so secure your spot...

On July 14, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC in response to the amended rule filing by CAT LLC to remove PII from CAIS. The FIF comment letter includes a discussion of the need to retire and replace EBS. FIF would like to thank the members of the CAT CAIS, CAT Transaction Reporting and EBS Working Groups for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.

On July 17, FIF submitted a letter to the SEC with comments on the draft Technical Specification published by the SEC for the Rule 605 summary report. FIF would like to thank the members of the Rule 605 Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

FIF has scheduled a call for the OFR Repo Reporting Working Group for Monday July 21 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will discuss issues and questions from FIF members relating to implementation of the reporting of non-centrally cleared bilateral repos to the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research.

The next call for the 24x7 Trading Working Group will be on Monday July 21 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of a draft FIF letter to the SEC relating to the planned expansion of exchange trading hours for US equities. If you are interested in participating in this discussion and are not a member of this Working Group, please update your FIF profile to add this Working Group or send a note to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The next call for the SLATE Working Group will be on Tuesday July 22 at 10 am ET. The Working Group will discuss issues and questions from FIF members and a draft FIF letter to the SEC and FINRA relating to the implementation of SLATE reporting.

The Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday July 22 at 11 am ET to review applicable updates and notices from the SEC, FINRA, FINRA CAT and the equity and option exchanges.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the Rule 605 and Rule 606 Working Groups for Tuesday July 22 at 3 pm ET. The Working Groups will discuss a draft Rule 605 Fact Sheet prepared by an FIF member and issues and questions from FIF members relating to Rules 605 and 606. 

FIF has scheduled two calls for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group for this week. The first call will be on Wednesday July 23 at 1 pm ET; during the first call, the Working Group will discuss potential amendments to SEC Rule 613 and the CAT NMS Plan to reduce CAT costs. The second call will be on Thursday July 24 at 11 am; during the second call, the Working Group will discuss a revised draft of the FIF request for permanent exemption relating to representative order linkage.