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Exchange leaders share their insights on technological advances, the latest product developments, and the regions and asset classes that will dominate in 2025.
READ MORE2025 issue of MarketVoice magazine
The 2025 issue of FIA's MarketVoice magazine includes exchange leader interviews, analyses of shifting regulatory landscapes, the latest on 24/7 futures markets, a look at tokenisation moving from pilot programmes to prevalent practice, and much more!
Derivatives in growth markets will continue to thrive, exchange leaders say
April 16, 2025 CONTINUE READINGViewpoint
22 April 2025
Viewpoint – Cleaning our regulatory closet
15+ years have led to a burdensome regulatory environment, some certainly justified but some excessive and overly prescriptive
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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: 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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Carbon trading gains momentum in Southeast Asia
Carbon trading is gaining momentum in Southeast Asia. New spot market exchanges for buying and selling carbon offsets have opened their doors in recent years in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Although the volume of transactions is still small, the direction of this nascent market is clear.
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