Get Smart
Get Smart on essential aspects of trading, compliance and market conduct.
FIA and IFM are working together to provide training to a broad range of market participants.

Online training for industry professionals, hedgers, fund managers and more!
Take advantage of valuable learning opportunities in an easily accessible online format. Get Smart on market conduct, exchange fundamentals, ethics, anti-money laundering and the associated regulatory requirements. Our courses are designed to help market participants better understand the way derivatives markets work and the rules that protect them. Ideal for traders, sales, client services, and operations professionals and the senior managers that oversee them as well as analysts, programmers and team members that touch the futures markets. Scroll down for details on each course.
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Mandated Training
Stay compliant with employee training as mandated by Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations and National Futures Association (NFA) rules.
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Initial Ethics TrainingDesigned to meet CFTC Rule 166.3 training requirements for new registrants. |
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Anti-Money LaunderingDesigned to meet NFA Rule 2-9(c) & Interpretive Notice 9045 annual training requirements. |
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Periodic EthicsDesigned to meet CEA and NFA Rule 2-9 training requirements. |
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Safeguarding Customer FundsDesigned to meet CFTC Rule 1.11 annual training requirements. |
Market Conduct Training
These courses cover key prohibited and disruptive practices such as wash trading, insider trading, front running, and spoofing to help the industry avoid or mitigate regulatory penalties.
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Understanding & Avoiding Spoofing BehaviorDesigned to meet NFA Rule 2-9(c) & Interpretive Notice 9045 annual training requirements. |
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Exchange Trading & Regulatory Fundamentals for Electronic TradersDesigned to meet NFA Rule 2-9(c) & Interpretive Notice 9045 annual training requirements. |
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Market Conduct FundamentalsDesigned to meet NFA Rule 2-9(c) & Interpretive Notice 9045 annual training requirements. |
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Exchange Courses
Our course content is developed by exchanges with a particular focus on areas where they see the most need for further education. Topics include prohibited and disruptive trading practices as well as position limits, block trades and EFRPs.
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About FIA
FIA, founded in 1955, is the leading global trade organization for the futures, options and centrally cleared derivatives markets, with offices in Brussels, London, Singapore and Washington, DC. FIA works to support open, transparent and competitive markets, protect and enhance the integrity of the financial system, and promote high standards of professional conduct.
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About IFM
The Institute for Financial Markets (IFM), established by the FIA in 1989 as their educational affiliate, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational foundation. The IFM works to increase public awareness and understanding of the importance of derivatives markets and the financial services industry to the global economy and to educate and train derivatives market participants and stakeholders.