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  • Asset managers: Treasury futures essential tool for managing duration 

    In their efforts to understand the growth of the basis trade in US Treasury markets, regulators have started looking at the other side of the trade – the asset managers buying ever larger amounts of Treasury futures.  

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  • CFTC’s Behnam discusses US Treasury and repo clearing

    FIA COO Jackie Mesa moderated a discussion with Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Rostin Behnam at the 2024 Treasury Market Conference, an annual event co-hosted by the US Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the CFTC. Behnam addressed FMX’s entrance into the US interest rate futures and the role of LCH as the clearinghouse for FMX.

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  • Draghi report proposes EU markets consolidation and single supervisor 

    Industry and regulatory focus on the European Union’s Capital Markets Union ramped up several notches this month with the publication of Mario Draghi's highly anticipated report on Europe's competitiveness, as well as papers from FIA and FIA European Principal Traders Association, among others. 

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  • Energized by the energy markets

    Earlier this month, FIA hosted its annual commodities forum in Houston, Texas. In the hometown of the energy industry, we brought together people from across the commodities landscape for discussions about how much the energy industry has changed and what opportunities for the futures industry lie ahead. Listening to our speakers, I heard the same refrain: demand will increase even more as energy markets grow increasingly complex and volatile.  

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  • People News – August/September 2024   

    Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry  

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  • Margin requirements and liquidity planning: Four case studies in commodity futures

    Energy markets have been subject to a series of shocks in the past few years, all of which have had a significant impact on prices of the derivatives traded on these products and as a consequence the margin requirements demanded from traders in the derivatives market.

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  • EXPLAINER: The meteoric rise in India’s equity derivatives volume

    India has gone from a small player in the equity derivatives market to the world’s largest, within just five years. Much of this growth followed the introduction of weekly-expiring contracts in 2019, replacing the traditional month-end expirations.

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  • People News – July/August 2024  

    New faces and promotions at the China Securities Regulatory Commission, G.H. Financials, Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing, Fenics Markets Exchange, Broadridge, MarketAxess, Eurex and more.

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  • Wild OATs: French elections roil the European bond market

    France has not defaulted on its debts since 1797, but bond traders are a nervous bunch. Since 9 June, when French President Emmanuel Macron stunned political observers by calling a snap election, the price of France's government bonds has fallen sharply.

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  • Data spotlight: Surge in trading of Midland oil futures on CME and ICE

    Both ICE and CME, the two most important exchanges in energy markets, have introduced a new set of crude oil futures contracts to reflect a specific pricing point whose importance has increased in the last several years.

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