On Jan. 16, FIA submitted a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission commenting on a proposal by the Options Clearing Corporation to amend certain provisions of its default management rules.
CONTINUE READINGFIA PTG sent a comment letter to the SEC today raising concerns with amendments to the previously proposed fee schedule rule changes filed by the Self-Regulatory Organizations (SROs) that are the Plan Participants to the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT).
CONTINUE READINGIn addition to the documents, webinars, and guidance provided by FIA, FIA PTG is collecting external resources for member firms working to implement MiFID II.
CONTINUE READINGThe FIA Market Technology division completed its 14th annual continuity of business and disaster resilience test on Oct. 13, 2017. A full report on the test and its findings have been released.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.061 billion contracts in the month of December, down 9.7% from the previous month and down 1.4% from December 2016.
CONTINUE READINGThe Securities and Exchange Commission now has a full set of commissioners for the first time since 2015.
CONTINUE READINGIt has been said that data are to this century what oil was to the last one—a driver of growth, change and disruption.
CONTINUE READINGComments from Piebe Teeboom, Secretary General of FIA EPTA, representing 30 independent proprietary trading investment firms operating in Europe, on the European Commission proposals on the new Prudential Regime for Investment Firms.
CONTINUE READINGCME Group is making another run at the OTC FX market. The Chicago-based market operator recently unveiled an agreement with seven leading liquidity providers to begin using its clearing service for non-deliverable forwards and redoubled its efforts to promote the capital efficiencies that clearing can provide for FX traders.
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