CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam sat down with FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken to kick off FIA's Expo conference in Chicago on November 14. And with FTX fresh in everyone's mind, the chairman took some time to discuss his perspectives and offer his views on how regulatory landscape in Washington might change.
CONTINUE READINGFIA announced today at Expo that BeZero Carbon has been named the FIA Innovator of the Year. In addition, Clouty was named the runner-up, and Kemet Trading won the People’s Choice Award.
CONTINUE READINGPanelists at FIA Expo discussed the resilience of global commodity markets amid the significant disruptions of the last year. However, there is still room for the industry to improve even though markets continued to function well.
CONTINUE READINGPanelists discuss EU measures to tackle energy crisis
CONTINUE READINGPanelists discuss the FTX fallout and what traditional players and crypto markets can learn from each other
CONTINUE READINGFIA has updated its CCP Tracker visualizations with data from the first quarter of 2022.
CONTINUE READINGThe total amount of customer funds in futures accounts at US FCMs reached $354.6 billion in September, up 13.6% over the last 12 months.
CONTINUE READINGFIA has updated its CCP Tracker visualizations with data from the second quarter of 2022.
CONTINUE READINGAutomation and operations are the focus, say brokers and exchanges at FIA Asia event.
CONTINUE READINGThe European Commission has proposed that firms subject to the EU clearing obligation should have an active account at an EU CCP, while giving the European Securities and Markets Authority the power to define the portion of certain euro- and Polish zloty-denominated contracts that should be cleared through those accounts via secondary regulation. Changes to capital rules would reinforce this, making it less commercially viable for EU market participants to clear through CCPs based outside the EU.
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