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Lukken discusses FIA's key policy issues
FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken spoke with Jim Kharouf of John Lothian News about FIA's priority issues for the rest of 2016.
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FIA analysis: leverage ratio proposals will negatively impact client clearing
Washington, D.C. — FIA submitted a response to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s consultative document on revisions to the Basel III leverage ratio framework.
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IDX Video: IOSCO targets clearing issues
Paul Andrews, the new head of the International Organization of Securities Commissions, is planning to stake out positions on two issues of critical importance to the derivatives markets: equivalence determinations and the leverage ratio.
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Leverage Ratio: Assessing the Impact on Client Clearing
On April 6, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision released a consultation paper on several potential changes to the Basel III leverage ratio framework, including changes to the treatment of derivatives exposures.
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IDX Video: Comments by Ray Kahn of Barclays during Moving the Industry Forward panel
Ray Kahn of Barclays discusses challenges for FCMs during Moving the Industry Forward panel at IDX 2016.
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Lower for Longer
Experts discuss falling prices and the impact on hedging strategies during a panel at FIA’s annual International Futures Industry Conference in Boca Raton, Fla.
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Capital Requirements
European policymakers have given non-bank commodity dealers another three years before they become subject to certain provisions of the Capital Requirements Regulation.
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Insight: It Will Forever Be Known as the "Ham Sandwich" Hearing
In April, I appeared as a witness before our industry’s oversight body of the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the impact of capital and margin requirements on end-users and our industry.
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Insight: It Will Forever Be Known as the "Ham Sandwich" Hearing
In April, I appeared as a witness before our industry’s oversight body of the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the impact of capital and margin requirements on end-users and our industry. Members of Congress were interested in how capital requirements and in particular the leverage ratio may increase the cost of clearing and reduce access to hedging by mistreating customer margin as bank leverage.
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Balancing Act
Commodity Futures Trading Commission officials weighed concerns the industry raised over changing the current residual interest deadline.
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