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FIA works closely with member firms to develop industry-standard agreements and other documentation that all market participants can use to support their trading and clearing functions as well as ensure regulatory compliance in different jurisdictions.

US Documentation Library

FIA’s US Documentation Library contains a wide range of guidance documents and template agreements and disclosures. These include standard give-up agreements, client clearing and execution agreements, risk disclosure statements and a number of exchange-specific agreements.

FIA CCP Risk Review

FIA’s CCP Risk Review™ summarizes the rules and procedures of CCPs worldwide. Written in practical, comparative terms and incorporating key implications of applicable law where relevant, the FIA CCP Risk Review assists market participants and regulators in scrutinizing and understanding the risks relating to CCPs, for both clearing members and clients.

European Documentation Library

FIA’s European Documentation Library puts valuable legal opinions and client terms of business at your fingertips. This documentation helps you meet regulatory requirements and/or common commercial objectives such as facilitating commercial dealings or addressing areas of capital or risk.

Documentation News

  • FIA responds to FCA consultation on ancillary activities exemption

    FIA supports replacing the market share test with an annual threshold test, but raises concerns about the suggested inclusion of trading venue activity. Doing so would add complexity, increase compliance costs, and reduce UK competitiveness relative to the EU and the US, where only non-venue derivatives are counted.

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  • Viewpoint – A hard reset: A return to recognition

    A recent policy document details the return of the UK’s recognition approach for regulating cross-border business that the UK helped develop nearly forty years ago. This nuanced change would unlock tremendous capacity for our industry to grow and return our markets to a more outcomes-based approach that could kick-start productivity in our global markets.

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  • FIA data shows shift in hedging practices from futures to options 

    Increases in margin requirements in the oil, agriculture and metals markets over the past five years have resulted in a significant shift in hedging practices from futures to options. 

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  • ISDA, SIFMA and FIA comments on enhanced supplementary leverage ratio reforms

    FIA, ISDA and SIFMA strongly support the proposed recalibration of the Enhanced Supplementary Leverage Ratio and urge the Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC to finalize the proposal as soon as possible, with an effective date no later than 1 January 2026.

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  • CME brings Wall Street to Main Street with FanDuel partnership 

    As part of the partnership, CME Group and FanDuel will form a new joint venture, under which they will operate a non-clearing futures commission merchant that will facilitate access to CME's event-based contracts through FanDuel’s app. 

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  • Stablecoins explained: Crypto’s big bang moment? 

    For years, Wall Street banks kept stablecoins at arm’s length. But now, even the most conservative parts of traditional finance are starting to recognise their potential. It feels like a seminal moment, but, as always with technological innovation, there are risks and challenges and questions of hype vs reality. 

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