FIF is pleased to welcome 24X National Exchange to the FIF Community.

FIF would like to thank OTC Markets Group for hosting FIF in our first quarterly event of 2026. Every seat was taken in this well attended event, that featured two timely panels and a great networking session afterwards. On the Tokenized Securities and Digital Commodities Panel, the moderator was Shawn sloves of Fundamental Interactions and the panelists were Reid Noch of TD Securities, Pat LaVecchia of Ondo Finance and Jeff Mendl of OTC Markets. For the panel focusing on exchange and other market developments, the moderator was Tom Jordan of Jordan & Jordan, and the panelists were John Ramsay of IEX, Arnaud Derasse of Exegy and Michael Masone of Citi. Thank you to all the panelists for volunteering their time, thank you to OTC Markets for hosting and thank you to all of the attendees! Please find pictures from the event here.

On March 26, FIF submitted a letter to FINRA proposing that FINRA provide interpretive guidance or regulatory relief relating to the support of low-touch trading outside of regular U.S. business hours. FIF would like to thank the members of the 24x7 Trading Working Group for their contributions in the drafting of this letter.

An FIF member would like to discuss with other FIF members the SEC’s recent proposed amendments to Rule 15c2-11 (Publication or submission of quotations without specified information). If you are interested in participating in this discussion, please send a note to fifinfo@fif.com.

The Data & Technology Committee will have its next call on Tuesday March 31 at 10 am ET to review capacity, latency and volume data for the prior month for the equity, options, currency, crypto and futures markets. The spotlight presenter will be John Willock of Blue Ocean, who will discuss the current state of overnight market data and planned SIP changes for the upcoming expansion of exchange trading hours.