FIA EPTA members consider that MiFID II has greatly strengthened European secondary markets operational resilience, which has been borne out in the recent COVID-19 crisis where EU financial markets have 2 continued to operate in an orderly fashion in spite of very significant volatility and trading volumes.
CONTINUE READINGIn a letter submitted to the SEC today, the FIA Principal Traders Group (FIA PTG) supported the goals of the Market Data Infrastructure Proposal to update and expand the information included in the Securities Information Processor (SIP) and to move to a decentralized consolidation model.
CONTINUE READINGThis webinar discussed the CFTC's proposed rule amending Part 190 (Bankruptcy rules).
CONTINUE READINGFIA, EBF and ISDA (the associations) wrote to the European Commission and European Securities and Markets Authority to welcome the steps they have taken so far to ensure that EU derivatives counterparties can rely on the intragroup exemption from clearing under EMIR when dealing with non-EU affiliates.
CONTINUE READINGThe death of George Floyd and others has laid bare the injustice and racism in our society and the desperate need for steps to address it.
CONTINUE READINGFIA has responded to the European Commission’s consultation on the Implementing Regulation to extend the qualifying central counterparty (QCCP) transitional period under the Capital Requirements Regulation II (CRR). FIA fully supports the extension, which will avoid disruption to international financial markets.
CONTINUE READINGThis November, all eyes in Washington are focused on the mid-term Congressional elections
CONTINUE READINGJ.P. Morgan Chase, ICAP and Barclays see a silver lining ahead for the New York voice communications startup Cloud9. In April, they announced that they had invested in the startup, which has a widely-used cloud-based voice trading platform.
CONTINUE READINGOn April 29 the European Securities and Markets Authority released the results of its first EU-wide stress test exercise for clearinghouses.
CONTINUE READINGSince joining Singapore Exchange as chief executive officer in July 2015, Loh Boon Chye has been busy reinforcing the exchange's position as a gateway to Asia's financial and commodity markets.
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