Commodities
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Battle of the benchmarks - Brent and WTI share growth in crude oil futures
Crude oil futures trading exploded in the first quarter of 2020 as price volatility reached record levels, but that was only the latest chapter in a long-term uptrend in the world’s most actively traded commodity futures.
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FIA discusses climate-related risk to FIA members, derivatives industry
FIA submitted comments to the CFTC's Market Risk Advisory Committee Climate Subcommittee on the challenges and issues related to climate change.
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FIA commends and offers refinements to CFTC’s proposed position limits rule
FIA today commends the CFTC for proposing a workable and flexible rule on speculative position limits for derivatives.
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CFTC advisory committee discusses position limits
End-users voice support for proposal's exemptions for hedging transactions
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FAQs on negative pricing in exchange-traded futures and options
During recent market volatility caused by the Coronavirus outbreak, there have been questions raised regarding how exchange-traded futures and options could have negative prices. FIA has developed the following FAQ to help address these questions.
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CFTC's Agricultural Advisory Committee discusses commodity volatility, pricing
Tarbert unveils plan to appoint a CFTC liaison Agriculture Department
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Joint trade association letter to ESMA on carbon benchmarks
FIA, jointly with ISDA, AFME, EFET and Europex, wrote to ESMA to express our concerns in relation to the requirement for benchmark administrators to comply with additional obligations set out in Regulation (EU) 2019/2089 (‘Low Carbon Benchmarks Regulation’) by 30 April 2020.
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Securities Financing Transaction Regulation – industry readiness
On 20 February, FIA, jointly with GFMA, CMC Europe, EFET and LBMA sent a letter to the FCA to notify the regulator that the commodity industry will require additional time to implement new reporting requirements under SFTR, which commence from April this year.
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FIA files response with ESMA on the review of MiFID II Position Limits
On 8 January 2020, FIA and ISDA responded jointly to ESMA’s consultation “MiFID II review report on position limits and position management and draft technical advice on weekly position reports”.
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FIA’s commodities members support CFTC move to delay swaps margin requirements
FIA’s U.S. Commodities members recently filed a response to the CFTC proposal relating to the implementation schedule for the CFTC’s uncleared margin rules.
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