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  • November 1, 2014 • FIA, Clearing, Cross Border, Dodd Frank

    President's Message November 2014

    This November, all eyes in Washington are focused on the mid-term Congressional elections

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  • September 22, 2014 • FIA, Clearing, Cross Border, Swaps

    New Chairman at the CFTC

    As the new chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Tim Massad faces a difficult challenge.

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  • September 16, 2014 • FIA, Clearing, Cross Border, EMIR, MIFID II

    Clearing the Deck: OTC Clearing in Europe

    The European Securities and Markets Authority on July 11 launched its first round of consultations to determine which classes of swaps will be subject to mandatory central clearing.

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  • September 16, 2014 • FIA, Cross Border, Customer Protection \ Segregation, Dodd Frank

    Washington Watch September 2014

    On June 24, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4413, the Customer Protection and End User Relief Act, a bill to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission through September 2018 and modify certain authorities of the CFTC within the Commodity Exchange Act

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  • September 16, 2014 • FIA, Cross Border

    FIA Special Report: Court Dismisses Part of CFTC Cross-Border Case, Orders Cost-Benefit Review

    On Sept. 16, a federal judge granted a motion to dismiss, in part, a lawsuit filed against the Commodity Futures Commission to overturn its guidance related to the application of Title VII in the Dodd-Frank Act to cross-border transactions.

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  • September 16, 2014 • MarketVoice, Cross Border

    Global regulators back plan to overhaul financial benchmarks

    The Financial Stability Board on July 22 published a report outlining reforms to major interest rate benchmarks such as Libor, Euribor and Tibor. One set of the recommended reforms is aimed at strengthening the existing "IBORs" and other reference rates based on unsecured bank funding costs by underpinning them with transaction data.

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  • September 15, 2014 • FIA, Clearing, Cross Border, Dodd Frank

    President's Message September 2014

    It has been a busy summer at FIA, and I am pleased to congratulate Gerry Corcoran on his election to chairman of FIA’s board of directors. Gerry is the CEO of R.J. O’Brien and has served on our board since 2008.

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  • September 15, 2014 • FIA, Market Structure

    Big Data Challenges at the CFTC

    Every day the Commodity Futures Trading Commission monitors some 300 million data records covering a range of market information such as time and sales transactions, futures and swaps positions, intraday trades and swap events.

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  • July 31, 2014 • FIA, Cross Border, Recordkeeping and reporting, Audio

    Joint Trade Associations Letter to IOSCO Secretary General on UTIs

    Joint Trade Associations Letter to IOSCO Secretary General on UTIs

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  • June 17, 2014 • FIA, Clearing, Cross Border, Dodd Frank

    10 Themes That Will Shape Financial Markets

    To provide some thought-provoking insights on the future of the derivatives industry, FIA invited Jane Gladstone, an investment banker who has advised many of the leading companies in this sector, to speak at the exchange leaders breakfast at FIA’s International Futures Industry Conference in Boca Raton, Fla. this past March.

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