The 24x7 Trading Working Group will have its next call on Thursday February 19 at 2 pm ET. The Working Group will continue its discussion of issues raised by FIF members relating to the planned expansion of exchange trading hours.

On January 29, FIF submitted a comment letter to the SEC discussing implementation of the recent SEC Order approving the removal of PII from CAT. FIF would like to thank the members of the FIF CAT Transaction and CAIS Working Groups for their contributions in the drafting of this comment letter.

FIF has scheduled two joint calls for the CAT Transaction Reporting and CAIS Working Groups for this week. The first call will be on Monday February 2 at 1 pm ET; the second call will be on Wednesday February 4 at 2 pm ET. The Working Groups will discuss a revised draft FIF comment letter in response to the rule filing by CAT LLC to reduce CAT operating costs.

The next call for the Digital Asset Securities Working Group will be on Tuesday February 3 at 2 pm ET.  James Dowd, the CEO of North Capital, will discuss the recent collaboration between North Capital and tZero to integrate their respective ATSs. Shawn Sloves, the CEO of Fundamental Interactions, will discuss the proposed Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Time permitting, the Working Group will also discuss the SEC’s recent FAQs relating to ATSs trading crypto asset securities, the recent Statement of the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets on the Custody of Crypto Asset Securities by Broker-Dealers, and the recent Statement of the SEC’s Divisions of Corporation Finance, Investment Management and Trading and Markets on Tokenized Securities. If you would like to participate in this discussion and are not a member of this Working Group, please update your FIF profile or send a note to fifinfo@fif.com.

FIF has scheduled a call for the Data and Technology Committee for Wednesday February 4 at 11 am ET to discuss the upcoming dissemination of odd lot quotes by the SIPs, which is scheduled for production on May 1.