Past Webinars
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Q1 2022 Trends in Futures and Options Trading
In this webinar, speakers highlight the main trends in trading activity in Q1 2022 in the global exchange-traded derivatives markets, with category and regional breakdowns as well as exchange and contract rankings.
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Industry Trends: The Future of Digital Assets and Sustainability
Over the past two years, the Asia-Pacific region has been significantly impacted by the global pandemic. This has led to several innovative solutions and products to maintain the growth trajectory in the region over the past decade.
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Trading Facility – an Evolving Concept for US and Global Regulators and Implications for DeFi
At the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, several US and international financial regulators have indicated that the concept of a trading facility is undergoing a dramatic revaluation to include more platforms that, until recently, were unregistered.
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The Archegos Rules: What the SEC’s security-based swap proposals mean for your business
In December 2021, the SEC proposed a series of rules that—if adopted—will dramatically affect how firms deploy security-based swaps in their equity and fixed income trading strategies.
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Energy Markets: Overlap and distinctions between CFTC and FERC regulation and enforcement
This session highlights the agencies’ different statutory jurisdictions, missions, congressional oversight, and regulatory frameworks, and what all of this means for the markets and companies they regulate.
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Taking stock of European regulatory developments
In this webinar, speakers take stock of regulatory developments in Europe, including the MiFID II review and the UK’s Wholesale Market Review.
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2021 Annual ETD Volume Review
Trading volume in the global exchange-traded derivatives hit 62 billion contracts in 2021, hitting a record for the fourth year in a row.
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Gaming and regulation of events contracts
This webinar addresses the unique authority Congress gave the CFTC in the Dodd-Frank Act to review event contracts – contracts relating to terrorism, assassination, war, gaming, and activities that are illegal under state or federal law – and to prohibit them if the CFTC determines they do not serve the public interest.
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Isn’t it just software: Does my technology-based service or product trigger any regulatory obligations?
In this webinar, we discussed innovative platforms and products that challenge current regulatory regimes and that may or may not be subject to regulatory requirements based on the offering facts and circumstances. For example, we discussed prediction market, NFTs, DeFi, and A.I./automation/roboadvisors.
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Crypto for FCM customer accounts
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Market Participants Division (MPD) (formerly the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight) published guidance regarding the deposit of virtual (crypto) currencies by customers and holding of these currencies by futures commission merchants (FCMs) to margin customer transactions in crypto currency futures.
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