The next call for the FIF Tax Information Reporting Working Group will be on Thursday May 18 at 3 pm ET. Stevie Conlon and other representatives from Wolters Kluwer will present on proposed regulations for crypto tax reporting.

On Friday April 28, FIF sent out two survey requests to FIF members relating to CAT Transaction Reporting: the first survey request relates to a Plan Participant proposal for scheduled linkage in the CAT production mirror environment; the second survey request relates to QA reviews of CAT events. FIF has requested that FIF members respond to the survey requests by Monday May 15 (end-of-day today). All survey responses will be anonymized.

On Thursday, May 11^th at 11am ET, FIF will be holding a webinar on the operational and system impacts of a possible government debt default. The webinar will be moderated by FIF Advisory Chair, Tom Jordan and he will be joined by a panel of industry experts. The invite will be sent out later today and will be sent to the Back Office Committee, Data & Technology Committee, Compliance Working Group and the TRACE/Fixed Income Working Group.  If you are not part of these groups and would like to join, please email us at fifinfo@fif.com and we would be happy to forward you the call.

FIF has scheduled a call for Tuesday May 9 at 2 pm ET to discuss the SEC’s recent reopening of the comment period on the SEC’s proposed amendments to Rule 3b-16 (relating to the definition of an “exchange”). FIF has invited members of the ATS Working Group, the Compliance and Surveillance Working Group and the TRACE/Fixed Income Working Group to participate on this call. If you are not a member of any of these groups and would like to participate on this call, please update your FIF profile or contact fifinfo@fif.com.

FIF has scheduled an additional call this week for the CAT Transaction Reporting Working Group to continue the discussion of CAT reporting for RFQ responses. This call is scheduled for Tuesday May 9 at 3 pm ET.