FIF is pleased to welcome eflow to the FIF Community.

Nametags will be sent to the printers today, please register before 3pm ET to secure a printed nametag. 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 equities panel will be moderated by Tom Jordan of Jordan & Jordan and will include panelists: Gregg Berman of Citadel Securities, Tom Hochleutner of Clear Street and Barry Metzger of DriveWealth. The options/futures panel will be moderated by Derek Lacarrubba of DASH Financial and will include panelists: Patrick Coicou of Cboe Global Markets, Mark Lanctot of Robinhood and Ben Londergan of Simplex Trading. 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 (sign in the site first, then register), non-members who are interested in attending may contact the program office at fifinfo@fif.com. 

On September 25, FIF submitted a comment letter in response to FINRA Regulatory Notice 26-15, which requests comment on modernizing FINRA’s best execution guidance. FIF would like to thank the members of the Equity Market Regulations Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.

FIF has scheduled the next call for the Digital Asset Securities Working Group for Monday September 28 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will discuss the recent exemption from exchange and dealer registration granted by the SEC for Tokenized Securities Venues and Liquidity Providers in an AMM Liquidity Pool.

The next call for the 24x7 Trading Working Group will be on Tuesday September 29 at 11 am ET. The Working Group will review a testing update from SIAC, rule changes by MEMX, the Cboe exchanges and the NYSE exchanges, CAT updates, and an updated list of open items.