On July 25, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to examine the recent failures of MF Global and Peregrine Financial and the implementation of Dodd-Frank.
CONTINUE READINGIn a letter submitted to the SEC today, the FIA Principal Traders Group encouraged the Commission to disapprove the proposal.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA members consider that, generally speaking, the longer hours in Europe do not seem to provide a benefit to market liquidity and observe that the shorter hours in, for example, the U.S. main trading session do not hamper market liquidity.
CONTINUE READINGFIA, FIA Europe and FIA European Principal Traders Association have submitted two sets of responses to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s consultation on MiFID II, the overhaul of the EU’s rules for markets in financial instruments.
CONTINUE READINGFIA joined AFME, BBA and ISDA in commenting on ESMA's Level 2 draft technical standards (DTS) on the Market Abuse Regulation.
CONTINUE READINGIn March 2019, FIA unveiled a board-level Diversity Committee and an initiative addressing the importance of diversity and inclusion in our industry. The committee, chaired by board member Alicia Crighton from Goldman Sachs, includes senior representatives from FIA member firms, as well as FIA senior staff.
CONTINUE READINGPrincipal Trading Firms are relatively small, non-complex firms with flat organization structures. Importantly, our members trade for own account and risk only, and do not hold or manage client assets or money or take deposits.
CONTINUE READINGFIA today submitted its response, along with Association for Financial Markets Europe (AFME), British Bankers Association (BBA) and International Swaps and Derivatives Association, to FCA's consultation paper on changes to the Handbook relating to implementation of the Market Abuse Regulation.
CONTINUE READINGPartnership with Tookitaki leverages machine learning to bring greater efficiency to the middle and back office
CONTINUE READINGAs interest grows, different indexes calculate environmental, social and governance criteria in different ways
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