IDTA submitted a comment letter in response regarding the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation — Proposed Rule Change (File No. SR-FICC-2026-008) and Advance Notice (File No. SR-FICC-2026-802) To Establish a Guaranty Fund in the Government Securities Division1.

James Tabacchi, CEO of South Street Securities Holdings Inc., and Stephen Hood, Head of Clearing Americas at Marex, were quoted in Risk.net's "Clearers Face Heavy Lift on CME-FICC Cross-Margin Service" by Paulina Pielichata, as the industry works to stand up CME-FICC cross-margining ahead of the SEC's clearing mandates.

IDTA Chairman James Tabacchi provided testimony before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee at the "Examining Primary Dealers and Balance Sheet Constraints" hearing.

The IDTA published a White Paper proposing a number of Treasury market reforms. The IDTA believes that these proposed reforms are necessary to couple with the SEC’s proposed Treasury central clearing mandate, in order to reduce concentration of risk and increase competition and diversity in the market.

The IDTA submitted a comment letter in response to the SEC’s proposed rule on mandatory central clearing of U.S. Treasury securities.