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People News – January / February 2026
Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry
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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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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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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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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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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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People News – December / January 2026
Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry
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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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Viewpoint: Don’t let the January blues get you down
2025 was a year in which FIA members leaned in, worked together and delivered meaningful progress for global derivatives markets. We should take pride in how often our work translated into real-world outcomes.
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Viewpoint: Crossing the river by feeling for stones
China's commodity futures markets rank among the world's largest in terms of both the volume of trading and the range of commodities that are traded. The success of these markets creates a tremendous pool of liquidity for Chinese and foreign companies that need to hedge their risks. But there's a problem – access to those markets is quite challenging for commodity traders and end-users in other parts of the world.
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