Past Webinars
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CFTC enforcement update: 2020 in review and outlook for 2021
This panel provides an overview of the CFTC’s considerable volume of enforcement activity in 2020. Panelists focus on enforcement trends and developments while also recapping the busy regulatory agenda of the outgoing administration. The panel provides a look ahead to what market participants can expect from the CFTC under the incoming Biden Administration in 2021.
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FIA Webinar: ICE Futures U.S. and ICE Futures Canada Disruptive Trading Practices
Representatives from ICE Futures U.S. and ICE Futures Canada gave a presentation and answered questions regarding recent changes to ICE Futures US and ICE Futures Canada rules governing disruptive trade practices. Speakers included Mark Fabian, Vice President, Market Regulation, ICE Futures U.S. and Steve Teller, Director, Market Regulation, ICE Futures Canada.
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FIA Webinar: Washington Update: A Briefing on CFTC Reauthorization, CFTC Nominations Process & Other Key Issues
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to consider legislation to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The bill, which was approved by the House Agriculture Committee on April 9 by a voice vote, reauthorizes the CFTC through September 2018. The legislation also includes provisions to better protect customer assets, it revises the organizational and operational requirements of the CFTC, and it provides regulatory relief to end-users of derivatives. Dawn Stump, FIA's head of government affairs, will give a brief presentation on the reauthorization legislation approved by the House Agriculture Committee and the process for advancing such legislation through the full House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, as well as the status of current CFTC nominees being considered in the Senate.
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FIA Webinar: The FIA-ISDA Cleared Derivatives Execution Agreement
This webinar will discuss the recently released FIA-ISDA Cleared Derivatives Execution Agreement--a template that can be used by participants in the cleared swaps markets in negotiating execution-related agreements with counterparties to over-the-counter derivatives that are intended to be cleared. This webinar will give an overview of the document and its intended use, take a closer look at specific provisions and explain the optional annexes.
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