The Front Office Committee will have its next call on Tuesday May 19 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 three joint calls for the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT Reference Database Working Groups for this week. The first call will be on Tuesday May 19 at noon ET; the second call will be on Wednesday May 20 at 2 pm ET; the third call will be on Thursday May 21 at 11 am. During the Tuesday call, the Working Groups will discuss a draft FIF letter to the SEC, CAT LLC and FINRA requesting that CAT LLC hold-off on deleting CAT data that is older than three years. During the Wednesday and Thursday calls, the Working Groups will discuss the first draft of an FIF comment letter on the CAT Concept Release.

FIF has scheduled a webinar on Electronic Communications Compliance for Tuesday May 19 at 2 pm ET. The moderator for the webinar will be Holly Dito of Daiwa. The panelists will be Meredith Abrams of the Simpson Thacher law firm, Thoreau Bartmann of the K&L Gates law firm, Rajni Chidambaram of Interactive Brokers, and Donald McElligott of Global Relay. FIF has invited the members of the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group for this webinar. If you would like to submit any questions for the webinar to be raised anonymously, please send them to fifinfo@fif.com.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the SEC FINRA Regulations Working Group and the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group for Wednesday May 20 at 11 am ET. The Workings Groups will continue the  review of an updated Regulatory Implementations Presentation and Calendar, including updates on the following topics: Consolidated Audit Trail; Rule 605 amendments; new equity and options exchanges and new clearing agencies; OPRA Dynamic Load Rebalancing; FICC cross-margining with CME; TRACE reporting; tokenized securities; and Trump accounts.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Short Sales / Reg SHO / Short Reporting Working Group for Thursday May 21 at 1 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss the first draft of an FIF comment letter on the rule filing by FINRA to amend short interest reporting (FINRA Rule 4560; proposed FINRA Rule 4321).