FIA’s annual survey of derivatives exchange volumes highlights strong growth in the trading of futures and options at exchanges in China, India, Korea, Singapore and other parts of Asia.
CONTINUE READINGFIA’s President and CEO Walt Lukken today gave opening remarks at FIA’s International Derivatives Expo.
CONTINUE READINGFIA President and CEO Walt Lukken today made the following statement on the Basel Committee’s agreement “on a targeted and limited revision of the leverage ratio to allow margin received from a client to offset the exposure amounts of client-cleared derivatives.”
CONTINUE READINGFIA President and CEO Walt Lukken today made the following opening remarks at the FIA Commodities Symposium in Houston, Texas.
CONTINUE READINGFIA has submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in a case that will decide the permissible venues for the arbitration of futures trading disputes under CFTC rules.
CONTINUE READINGFIA President and CEO Walt Lukken today issued the following statement on the passing of Senator Richard Lugar
CONTINUE READINGFIA’s annual survey of derivatives exchange volume revealed that the total number of futures and options traded on exchanges worldwide reached 25.22 billion contracts in 2016.
CONTINUE READINGISDA and FIA have responded to the European Commission’s feedback consultation regarding the draft equivalence decisions for financial benchmarks in Singapore and Australia under the European Benchmarks Regulation (BMR), discussing possible practical difficulties resulting from the European Commission’s suggested procedure for equivalence decisions under the BMR.
CONTINUE READINGFrom February 13-15, 2019, FIA and the SIFMA Asset Management Group hosted their annual forum, which brings together market participants from all sides of a trade to examine the latest developments in global derivatives trading and clearing, operations and regulation.
CONTINUE READINGOn 5 April, FIA commented jointly with ISDA and GFMA on the European Commission initiative on the strengthening of the role of the euro in energy markets.
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