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  • February 23, 2026 • MarketVoice, Viewpoint

    Viewpoint: Five mega trends for 2026

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

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  • February 19, 2026 • MarketVoice, People

    People News – January / February 2026

    Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry

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  • February 19, 2026 • MarketVoice, Europe, Market Structure, Technology, Trading

    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.  

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  • February 10, 2026 • MarketVoice, Settlement Discipline, Emerging Technology & Products, Industry Operations

    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. 

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  • January 30, 2026 • MarketVoice, Emerging Technology & Products

    CFTC announces new prediction markets rule process

    In his first public remarks since assuming the top position at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Mike Selig announced a reset of the regulatory landscape for prediction markets.

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  • January 27, 2026 • MarketVoice, Emerging Technology & Products

    Surging volumes have prediction markets facing a legal reckoning in the US   

    Prediction markets, once a niche academic experiment, are colliding with US gambling laws, state regulators and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as volumes surge and courts weigh who has authority over bets on everything from elections to sports and world events. 

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  • January 23, 2026 • MarketVoice, Emerging Technology & Products

    CFTC Chair pushes to 'future-proof' derivatives oversight

    Michael Selig is wasting little time putting his stamp on the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission. A month after taking office as chair, Selig announced a “Future-Proof” initiative, directing CFTC staff to conduct a comprehensive review of the agency’s rules and regulations and modernise them to ensure a level playing field for new entrants and incumbents alike.  

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  • January 23, 2026 • MarketVoice, Commodities

    UK regulator simplifies commodity trading rules after industry pushback

    The Financial Conduct Authority said its revised framework for the Ancillary Activities Exemption will exclude exchange-traded derivatives from a new threshold test used to assess whether a firm’s commodity derivatives trading remains incidental to its core commercial business.  

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  • January 22, 2026 • MarketVoice, MARKETVOICE, People

    People News – December / January 2026

    Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry

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  • January 21, 2026 • MarketVoice, FIA MARKETS ACADEMY

    FIA launches Markets Academy to expand global industry education

    New platform brings IFM courses and FIA resources together under a single education hub

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