On 6 September, FIA submitted a response to ESMA to their consultation on the development in prices for pre- and post-trade data and on the consolidated tape for equity instruments.
CONTINUE READINGFIA President John Damgard discussed some of the adverse consequences of the extraterritorial impact of the Dodd-Frank Act at a May 25 hearing of the House Agriculture Committee’s subcommittee on general farm commodities and risk management.
CONTINUE READINGWalt Lukken, President and CEO of FIA, delivered remarks on global trends in derivatives markets on May 28 during the Shanghai Derivatives Market Forum in Shanghai, China.
CONTINUE READINGFIA’s U.S. Commodities members recently filed a response to the CFTC proposal relating to the implementation schedule for the CFTC’s uncleared margin rules.
CONTINUE READINGOn 8 January 2020, FIA and ISDA responded jointly to ESMA’s consultation “MiFID II review report on position limits and position management and draft technical advice on weekly position reports”.
CONTINUE READINGOn 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.
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