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Rule 605 Tech Spec & Expanded CAT Support

S3: Tracking Best Execution

STA Open Call: Expanding the Scope of Rule 605

Curatia Analysis for Wed, March 20: What the SEC Nailed and Neglected in Enhanced Rule 605 Disclosures: An Exclusive Q&A with S3 CEO Mark Davies

PRESS RELEASE: Jake Campbell Named S3 Vice President of Sales, Europe

PRESS RELEASE: S3 Partners with Blue Ocean Technologies to Provide CAT Reporting Services

Open Call Recap – SEC Equity Proposals: Disclosure of Order Execution Information (Rule 605)

Open Call: SEC Equity Market Proposals: Disclosure of Order Execution Information (Rule 605) – Video

Raising the Bar on Retail Best Execution in Europe

S3 Launches Global Options Best Ex & TCA

STANY Awards

Scott Richard Named Vice President – Global Head of Sales and Strategy

Rob Olkiewicz Named Chief Experience Officer & Jeremy Vest Named Chief Revenue Officer at S3

S3 Recognized As Winner of 2021 Benzinga Fintech Awards Best Data Analytics Tool

S3 Launches International TCA

Curatia Analysis: The Future of PFOF Disclosures, CAT Launch Preparations, and Austin’s Legendary Swimming Holes: A Conversation with S3 CEO Mark Davies

S3 Launches New Depth Aware Enhanced E/Q Tool

TABB Forum: Like PFOF for Chocolate

STANY Member Spotlight: Mark Davies

S3 Welcomes Sarah Phillips for Marketing and Sales Operations

Finops Report: FINRA’s CAT: Customer Account Data Management Challenge

S3 Welcomes Sarah Phillips for Marketing and Sales Operations

S3 Launches Concierge Service for Custom Reports

S3 Concierge Launch

Finops Report: CAT: FINRA’s Exams, Deadlines Won’t Be a Virtual Breeze

Markets Media: RegTech Q&A with Mark Davies, S3

S3 Certified for CAT Production by FINRA

Traders Magazine: S3’s Davies on SEC Rule 606 Delay

Finops Report: New Trade Execution Transparency Tests Data Exchange

S3 Offers SEC CAT Solution Ahead of April Reporting Deadline

S3 Launches CAT Reporting Solution

S3 CEO Mark Davies to speak at Security Traders Association of Chicago’s (STAC) 94th Annual Meeting

Finops Report: Regulatory Ops 2020: Handling Tower of Acronyms

S3 Signs CODA Markets for SEC Rule 606 Reporting and Best Execution Analytics

TABB Forum: Rule 606 Look-Through – A Complex Web, Information Leakage, and How to Reduce the Pain

WatersTechnology: SEC, FIF Seek End to Rule 606 Compliance Confusion

SS&C Adds S3’s Transaction Cost Analysis and SEC Rule 606 Regulatory Reporting Services

Davies to speak at the 2019 Texas Traders Convention

Finops Report – Rule 606: SEC Redefines Discretionary Trades

S3 Onboards James Augustyn for Customer Service

Davies to speak at Canadian Security Traders Association Annual Conference 2019

WatersTechnology.com: Brokers Cry SOS on Rule 606

Finops Report, SEC’s New Rule 606: Execution Transparency At a Cost

SEC Rule 606 Reporting

Rule 606(a) Analysis

Best Execution Analytics

CAT Reporting

S3 CEO Mark Davies Discusses SEC Rule 606 Updates

Trade Surveillance Suite

606 Reporting Requirements Summary

Product Suite

Regulatory Reporting Suite

Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA)

Canadian Best Execution Quality Suite

S3 Launches New 606 Reporting Suite

Fixed Income Execution Quality Suite

S3 Concierge

S3 Launches Trade Surveillance Suite, Providing All-In-One Compliance, Reporting and Analytics

S3 Trade Surveillance Suite

CEO CHAT: Mark Davies, S3

S3 Unveils FX-Aware Best Execution Platform

S3 Enhances Best Execution Analytics Platform with Equities Execution Efficiency Functionality

If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

S3 Signs Major Mutual Fund Company to Options TCA Platform

S3 Expands Partnership with BOX Market

S3 Expands Partnership with BOX Market LLC

S3 Enables Compliance with Recently Amended IIROC Best Execution Regulations in Canada

S3 Signs Leading U.S. Retail Bank to Its Best Execution Analytics Suite

S3 helps buy side analyse counterparty performance

S3 Introduces Contra Reporting for Fixed Income Securities

S3 Introduces Contra Reporting for Fixed Income Securities

S3 Launches Options Best Ex 2.0 Execution Analysis System

S3 Launches Options Best Execution 2.0 – The New Standard for Options Execution Analysis

S3 Signs Bulge Bracket Bank to Its Best Execution Analytics Suite

S3’s Best Execution Analytics Data Now Available for Fidessa Canada’s Customers

S3 Unveils Enhanced Regulatory Reporting Suite

S3 Rolls Out New Rules Coverage, Looks to Expand Reporting Capabilities

S3 Launches Next Generation Options Market Statistics Platform

S3 Unveils Options Analytics Platform

S3 Signs TradeStation to Its Best Execution Analytics Platform

S3’s New Client Signing Signals Growing Analytics Interest

S3 Signs Large U.S. Retail Broker to Its Best Execution Analytics Platform

The Missing Quotes

S3 Debuts Fixed Income Trade-Analysis Suite

S3 Launches Fixed Income Execution Quality Suite

S3 Unveils Execution Quality Service for Fixed Income

S3 expands best execution tools to fixed income market

S3 Offers Fixed Income Execution Quality Suite

Trade Tech: S3 Unveils Fixed Income Execution Quality Suite

S3 launches fixed income execution quality suite

S3 signs major US retail broker

S3 Signs Major U.S. Retail Broker to Its Best Execution Analytics Platform

The Bext Execution Debate: Dividing the Pie

Brokers Warned Not to Steer Clients’ Stock Trades Into Slow Lane

S3 Bolsters Client Services Team with Two Appointments

S3 Signs One of the Largest U.S. Market Makers to Its Equities Best Execution Analysis Platform

S3 Signs Major U.S. Bank to Its Trade Execution Analytics Platform

S3 Launches Upgraded Regulatory Reporting Analysis Software

S3 Launches Enhanced Reg Reporting Analytics Suite

S3 Launches Upgraded Rule 605/606 Reporting Software and Includes Reg SHO Function

Complex Option Spread Best Execution

S3 Beefs Up Its Buyside Execution Suite

S3 Enhances Buy-Side Execution Quality Suite

S3 Builds Out Buy-Side Execution Quality Suite

Options TCA

S3 Appoints Former Charles Schwab Technologists

S3 Enhances Leadership Team With Two Key Management Appointments

S3 Makes Two Key Appointments

Questions Linger Even as Brokers Shed More Light on Stock Trades

Canadian Capital Markets – A One-Sided Rivalry

Cross-border capital conundrum

S3 Debuts Best Execution Tool for Canadian Brokers

S3 Launches Canada Best-Execution Suite

S3 Launches Canadian Best Execution Quality Suite

S3 Adds Canadian Best Ex Analytics to its Suite of Tools, With More Geographies to Come

S3 is hosting the Austin Fintech Congress on November 4th at Adelbert’s Brewery!

S3’s John Standerfer Featured in Markets Media

S3 is featured in the Wall Street Letter

S3 Featured in Traders Magazine

Tobin Griser

S3 Featured in TheTrade Magazine

S3 launches Buy-Side Execution Quality Suite

Buy-Side Execution Quality Suite

S3 Launches Complex Spread Best Execution

S3 Newsletter #1 – Facebook Moves to Chicago

S3 Is Featured On The Options Insider Radio Program

S3 Launches Options Exchange Fee Subscription Feed

S3 Supercharges Smart Routing

Join S3 at Cabana #4 at OIC!

S3 and Silexx Announce Strategic Alliance

S3 Statistics Validated by Leading Academics

S3 is Sponsoring OIC

S3 will be at TradeTech Europe

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Speaking Engagements

4/23/24 – TradeTech Europe – Interacting with Retail Liquidity: Examining the Role of Retail Liquidity: How has the rise in retail trading volumes impacted the institutional markets and how can you leverage new platforms and tools to access this liquidity?
Adrian Bradshaw – Senior Equity Dealer, Invesco
Mark Davies – Co-Founder and CEO, S3
James Webb – Deputy Head of Execution, Peel Hunt
Wail Azizi – Chief Strategy Officer, Equiduct
Lara Shevchenko – Senior Policy Advisor- Market Structure, FIA European Principal Traders Association

4/10/24 – STA Washington DC Spring Update
Retail Trading Fireside Chat with Mark Davies, CEO of S3 and moderated by Dan Zinn, General Counsel & Chief of Staff at OTC Markets Group

3/7/24 – FIX EMEA Trading Conference – Keeping Markets Moving
Mark Davies, CEO of S3, Nick Idelson, Co-Chair Algo Trading Working Group, FIX Trading Community, Greg Konczak, Manager, Fixed Trading Venues, FCA, Robert Miller, Head of Global Equity Execution Consulting, Vanguard Asset Management Ltd, Severine Vandelanoite, Senior VP, Market Structure and Regulation, Deutsche Borse

2/1/24 – STANY Emerging Leaders Expert Panel
With Scott Richard, VP – Global Head of Sales & Strategy at S3, Shelley Eleby, MD Head of Marketing Electronic Trading at BMO Capital Markets, Jennifer Fagenson, Head of Equities at DASH Financial Technologies, Ron Hooey, Senior Director, Client Execution Quality and Order Routing, BNY Mellon / Pershing.  Moderated by Amanda Jimenez, Quantitative Client Trading, Hudson River Trading

1/16/24 – Best Ex & TCA Analysis and Regulatory Reporting Roundtable
at Interbourse in Soldeu, Andorra with industry members from across EMEA

11/8/23 – TRADEliance Regulatory Roundtable in Dallas
Regulatory roundtable with Scott Richard, VP – Global Head of Sales & Strategy at S3, to discuss current industry issues with members of the Dallas trading community

10/28/23 – Axos Clearing Leadership Summit
Mark Davies, S3, Chris Versace, CIO of Tematica Research, moderated by Michael Scaplen, Axos Clearing

10/12/23 – 90th Annual STA Market Structure Conference
Mark Davies, S3, Tom Hochleutner, Senior Compliance Officer at Clear Street, Ovi Montemayor, Managing Director at Charles Schwab, Stephen Kay, Global Head of Sell-Side Sales at Virtu Financial, and moderated by Jacob Rappaport, Head of Equities, StoneX Group Inc.

9/7/23 – Dallas STA: Regulatory Update
With Mark Davies, S3, and Jim Toes, President and CEO, STA

7/11/23 – TRADEliance Regulatory Roundtable in Minneapolis
Regulatory roundtable with Scott Richard, VP – Global Head of Sales & Strategy at S3, to discuss current industry issues with members of the Minneapolis trading community

5/23/23 FIF Webinar on Fixed Income Trade Surveillance Moderator
Tom Jordan, Chair of the FIF Advisory Committee  Panel: Ted Karn of The Karn Group, Alex Sedgwick of Abel Noser, and John Standerfer of S3

5/17/23 – Advisorpedia Podcast: Expanding Offerings and Evolving the Market
With Michael Scaplen and Mark Davies https://www.advisorpedia.com/podcasts/expanding-offerings-and-evolving-the-market-with-michael-scaplen-and-mark-davies/

5/11/23 – ITAP Annual
Mark Davies presentation on SEC Proposals

5/5/23 Carolina STA: SEC Proposals: The Comments Are In – Where Do We Stand?
Moderator: Mark Davies, S3 Panel: Ed Hosty, Robinhood, Troy Draizen, Jones Trading, Stephen Kay, Virtu

2/24/23 STA Florida: Market Structure: Topic – Next Generation Market Structure
Moderator: Mark Davies, S3. Panel: Rob Verderese, Head of Cash Trading – Virtu • Adam Inzirillo, SVP, Head of North American Equities – Cboe Global Markets • Scot Galvin, COO/POO – Robinhood • Michael Harrington, Citadel Securities

2/8/23 SIFMA Webinar
Presentation to Equity Markets and Trading Committee-SEC 605 Proposal

1/25/23 STA Chicago Panel – Market Structure – SEC Rule Filing Updates
Moderator: Phil Pearson, Barclays – Head of Americas Electronic Equity Product. Panel: Clare Saperstein – Head of Equities at NYSE • Joe Mecane – Head of Execution Services at Citadel Securities • Mark Davies – Co-Founder, CEO – S3 • Jason Wallach – Head of Capital Markets at Apex Clearing Corporation

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