FIF is excited to announce our annual Chicago event, sponsored by Cboe Global Markets. After opening remarks from Keith Petersen, VP of Market Data, there will be an equities panel and an options/futures panel. The equities panel will focus on topics such as Rule 611, Rule 605, CAT and overnight trading. The options/futures panel will focus on potential topics such as: extended hours trading in options, single stock futures, prediction markets, OPRA dynamic rebalance symbol distribution, crypto options and binary KPI options. The panelists for the equities panel will include: Gregg Berman of Citadel Securities, Tom Hochleutner of Clear Street and Barry Metzger of DriveWealth. The panelists for the options/futures panel will include: Mark Lanctot of Robinhood, Ben Londergan of Simplex Trading and a Cboe Panelist to be named soon. The event will take place on Tuesday October 6th at Cboe's offices at 433 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60607. Registration in the lobby begins at 2pm CT, the speaking engagement will be from 3-4:30pm CT with refreshments and networking afterwards from 4:30-6pm CT. FIF would like to thank Cboe Global Markets for sponsoring this event. FIF Members may register for free here, non-members who are interested in attending may contact the program office at fifinfo@fif.com.

On September 4, FIF submitted a letter to the SEC, CAT LLC, FINRA and FINRA CAT relating to reporting of the tradingSession field for expanded exchange trading hours. FIF would like to thank the members of the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT Reference Database Working Groups for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Equity Market Regulations Working Group for Tuesday September 8 at 1 pm ET. The Working Group will continue the discussion of FINRA Regulatory Notice 26-15 on modernizing FINRA’s best execution guidance.

The next call for the Rule 605 Working Group will be on Wednesday September 9 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will discuss issues and questions from FIF members relating to the recently-implemented amendments to Rule 605.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT Reference Database Working Groups for Wednesday September 9 at 2 pm ET. The Working Groups will continue their discussion of CAT updates for expanded exchange trading hours. The Working Groups will also discuss updates from recent calls with FINRA CAT.