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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

  • Viewpoint: FIA in Brussels: In-person meetings, outsized impact

    Over the course of two-plus days, we met with policymakers at the European Commission, several EU Member States’ representations, key members of the European Parliament and their staff, and leaders at the European Securities and Markets Authority and European Central Bank. We reiterated the story of the global cleared derivatives industry, how we agree with the push to simplify the regulatory burden on our members and discussed centralised supervision. CONTINUE READING

  • Viewpoint: Five mega trends for 2026

    To help frame many of the discussions at this year's Asset Management Derivatives Conference, I shared five trends that matter to both the buyside and sellside. CONTINUE READING

  • All roads lead to DLT: ECB advances Pontes and Appia 

    Europe’s push to enable settlement of DLT-based transactions in central bank money is moving from experimentation to implementation, with the European Central Bank launching a twin-track programme – Pontes and Appia – to bring tokenised settlement closer to reality. Speakers at FIA’s Brussels Forum earlier this month said the shift marks a significant step beyond recent exploratory trials, signalling growing confidence that distributed ledger technology can address long-standing inefficiencies in Europe’s collateral and settlement landscape.  CONTINUE READING

  • EU capital markets reform takes centre stage at FIA Brussels Forum  

    Europe’s push to strengthen its capital markets took centre stage at an FIA forum in Brussels this month, with policymakers and market participants examining the European Commission’s Market Integration and Supervision Package and proposed reforms to ESMA’s supervisory powers.   CONTINUE READING

  • FIA responds to FCA consultation on improving the UK Transaction Reporting Regime

    FIA has responded to the Financial Conduct Authority’s consultation on improving the UK Transaction Reporting Regime. FIA welcomes several positive elements within the proposals, including reduced back-reporting timelines and the removal of low-value reportable fields. At the same time, FIA highlights industry concerns relating to proposals on conditional single-sided reporting, which members believe are unlikely to deliver meaningful efficiency gains. CONTINUE READING

  • People News – January / February 2026

    Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry CONTINUE READING