Law & Compliance Division Conference
27 April 2022 - 29 April 2022 • 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM ET
Mark your calendar for L&C 2022 taking place 27-29 April in Washington, DC. The annual Law & Compliance Division Conference provides a forum to learn and discuss the legal and regulatory issues impacting the derivatives industry. L&C meets the needs of multiple levels of practitioners in the industry, from the new law firm associate to the Chief Compliance Officer. The program will cover recent legal and regulatory precedents affecting the futures, options and centrally cleared derivatives markets.
Registration opens soon. Check back for more details!
Why L&C?
Discover What Matters
The L&C program covers recent legal and regulatory precedents affecting the cleared derivatives industry.
L&C 2022 meets the needs of multiple levels of practitioners in the industry, from the new law firm associate to the Chief Compliance Officer. Choose between practical 101 sessions to deep dives as well as a session track dedicated to compliance issues.
Build Your Brand
Build your company’s name recognition and enhance its reputation within the futures and derivatives industry by exhibiting or sponsoring at L&C 2022.
Promote your legal, compliance and risk management products and services to attendees ranging from in-house counsel to industry regulators. Explore the numerous sponsorship and exhibit opportunities available for your firm.
Make Lasting Connections
Grow your network in the cleared derivatives community at L&C 2022.
Through multiple networking events, you have the opportunity to connect with regulators and legal specialists in the industry.
2022 Agenda
11:00 a.m. ET
Registration Open
12:00 p.m. ET
Exhibits Open & Welcome Hospitality
1:45 p.m. ET
Welcome Remarks
2:00 p.m. ET
Enforcement
3:00 p.m. ET
Networking Break
3:30 p.m. ET
But Wait, There's More Enforcement – Exchange Enforcement
4:30 p.m. ET
Roundtables
5:00 p.m. ET
Opening Reception
Schedule subject to change.
7:00 a.m. ET
Registration Open & Continental Breakfast
7:30 a.m. ET
Meet the CFTC
8:30 a.m. ET
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
CFTC vs. SEC
Energy Markets – When the Issues Can Be Both “Hot and Cold”
CCP Risk Issues
9:30 a.m. ET
Networking Break
10:00 a.m. ET
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
FCM vs. Swap Dealer
Global Carbon Markets
The Rise of Retail
11:00 a.m. ET
Networking Break
11:15 a.m. ET
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Security Based Swap Dealer Issues
Proprietary Trading Firm Issues
The Continuing Saga of Crypto Regulation
12:30 p.m. ET
Keynote Lunch & Annual Meeting
2:30 p.m. ET
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Compliance in a Covid/Post Covid World
Investment Management Issues
Defi -- Does "Decentralized" Finance Mean De-Regulated Finance?
3:30 p.m. ET
Networking Break
4:00 p.m. ET
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
The Root Causes of Controls' Failures and Remediation
Electronic and SEF Trading
Understanding Clearing Models (and their Ramifications)
5:00 p.m. ET
Roundtables
5:00 p.m. ET
Networking Reception
Schedule subject to change.
7:00 a.m. ET
Registration Open
7:30 a.m. ET
Breakfast and Washington Update
8:30 a.m. ET
Closing Remarks
9:00 a.m. ET
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Cooperation and Self Reporting -- Do You Have the Right to Remain Silent?
EU/Equivalence Issues
Reporting, Reporting, Reporting, and More Reporting
10:00 a.m. ET
Networking Break
10:30 a.m. ET
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Ethics
Foreign Security Futures: Find Me a Regulator!
Supervision: Surveillance and Recordkeeping
11:30 a.m. ET
Networking Break
12:00 p.m. ET
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
What are Regulators Doing about Diversity and Inclusion
IBOR and Other Reference Rates -- Where Do We Stand?
Blowing the Whistle
1:00 p.m. ET
Conference Grab & Go Lunch
2:00 p.m. ET
Conference Concludes
Schedule subject to change.
Event Details
| Through April 8 | After April 8 | |
|---|---|---|
| L&C DIVISION MEMBER | $830 | $1,020 |
| FIA MEMBER (includes L&C Division Membership) |
$880 | $1,075 |
| NON-MEMBER | $1,195 | $1,450 |
| GOVERNMENT/REGULATOR | $325 | $325 |
Registration opens soon.
For group registrations, please contact memberservices@fia.org.
Walk ups are allowed.
If you have issues registering, please contact memberservices@fia.org.
CLE will be applied for in Virginia and Illinois. New York has a reciprocal agreement with Virginia. If you need a different state, please check their CLE requirements. If credit hours are approved, certificates will be issued after the conference to those who scan in and out each day. If you do not scan in and out each day adjustments CANNOT be made. For more information about CLE credits, please contact Beth Thompson.
Marriott Marquis Washington DC
FIA has reserved a block of rooms at the hotel for conference attendees. Rates start at $309.00 per night and are quoted exclusive of applicable state and local taxes, occupancy, service, and/or other hotel fees (currently 14.95%). The cut-off date for the group rate is April 5, 2022. Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that once the block is sold out, the hotel’s market price applies regardless of the date of booking and that some rate categories sell out faster than others.
Make sure to confirm all cancellation policies and forfeiture of deposits directly with the hotel when booking your reservation.
In order to ensure the safety of event attendees due to the heightened personal risk caused by COVID-19, FIA is taking these steps:
- FIA will only allow fully vaccinated individuals to attend L&C.
- During the registration process, individual registrants will have to read and acknowledge that they understand FIA’s COVID-19 Waiver & Attestation Requirement for attending L&C.
- Prior to L&C, attendees will be required to sign a liability waiver and attest to their vaccination status.
- L&C attendees will monitor their health for COVID-19 symptoms. If any symptoms appear in the 14 days prior to L&C, the attendee will not be allowed to participate.
- FIA will follow all applicable health and safety measures required by the local law and the event venue.
- FIA is working closely with the Marriott Marquis Washington DC to monitor the situation and follow responsible practices to ensure the safety of conference attendees, staff, and event meeting spaces. More details will be released prior to the event.
Participation in this event is subject to FIA’s COVID Policy.
If you have questions regarding this policy, please contact memberservices@fia.org.
Contact Toni Vitale Chan, Vice President of Business Development at +1 312.636.2919 to discuss sponsorship and exhibit opportunities.
Law & Compliance Division
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The FIA Law & Compliance Division monitors legal and regulatory developments affecting the futures and derivatives industry, assisting FIA in providing information to help relevant regulators and courts make decisions that affect the futures and cleared swaps community. The division discusses issues with U.S. and International regulators and exchanges and prepares comment letters, position papers, and court briefs when appropriate. More than 600 industry professionals are members of the division and take part in regularly scheduled events and webinars in addition to the annual conference.
