The Data & Technology Committee will have its next call on Wednesday August 26 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAT Reference Database Working Groups for Wednesday August 26 at 2 pm ET. The Working Groups will discuss a revised draft FIF letter to CAT LLC, FINRA and FINRA CAT relating to changes to reporting of the tradingSession field in connection with the planned expansion of exchange trading hours.

FIF has scheduled a joint call for the Rule 605 and 606 Working Groups for Monday August 31 at 2 pm ET. The Working Groups will discuss issues and questions from FIF members relating to the recently-implemented amendments to Rule 605.

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 options. The panelists will be announced soon, registration is open though, so secure your spot today by registering here. 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. 

FIF has scheduled a call for the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group for Monday August 17 at 1 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss creating a contact list (similar to the CAT Contact List) to assist broker-dealers with onboarding broker-dealer counterparties and conducting periodic refresh processes with broker-dealer counterparties. The Working Group will also discuss challenges with implementing supervisory controls for single stock futures.