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Digital asset market legislation offers opportunity to streamline efficiencies
US market regulators and US bank regulators should develop and implement capital efficiencies by permitting both cross product margining and cross product netting. These efficiencies would improve market liquidity and incentivize clearing activity by highly regulated US banks across both emerging digital asset markets and traditional markets.
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India's options crackdown weighs on global ETD trading volume
The global exchange-traded derivatives market experienced a notable decline in volume in Q1 2025 compared to the same period last year, largely due to a fall in the number of equity options contracts traded on exchanges in India.
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Johnson announcement could leave CFTC with one commissioner
CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson’s announcement to step down “later this year” could leave the agency with only one sitting commissioner
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FIA charity spotlight: LTSB
Ahead of Social Mobility Day on 12 June, MarketVoice spoke to LTSB, the social mobility charity supported by FIA and Futures for Kids. Launched in 2012 by David Pinchin, the co-founder and former CEO of interdealer broker Tradition Financial Services, LTSB prepares and connects bright young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to careers with major firms.
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People News - April/May 2025
Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry
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FIA roundtable focuses on retail trading trends in derivatives markets
Demographic shifts are leading to a growing interest in retail access to futures markets, particularly in digital assets and event contracts. This presents the industry with a significant opportunity to continue a long tradition of innovation.
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Sponsored Content
Sponsored content: The leading platform for physical grain market data in Brazil
Grão Direto is the largest digital grain trading platform in Latin America, connecting the entire agribusiness supply chain – from farmers to buyers such as feed mills, cooperatives, intermediaries and major trading companies.
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Viewpoint - Cleaning our Regulatory Closet
We have come to the end of a regulatory super cycle that began with the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, and it's time to "spring clean" our regulatory closet. Over the last 15 years, governments have placed layers and layers of regulation on financial firms, some certainly justified but some excessive and overly prescriptive. The compliance costs of these regulations have a real impact on our economic growth and productivity.
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MarketVoice Podcast - Adena Friedman, Chair and CEO of Nasdaq
At FIA Boca in March, Walt Lukken sat down with Nasdaq Chair and CEO Adena Friedman to discuss what she's hearing from customers and business leaders on the outlook for the US economy, Nasdaq's plan to move to 24/7 trading in 2026, AI and more.
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Predicting the future of prediction markets
While prediction markets have existed for many years, they exploded in popularity in 2024 thanks to the introduction of contracts that allowed people to bet on elections. That success demonstrated that these contracts could become a new asset class for both retail and institutional investors.
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