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The CFTC's approach to cross-border trading: understanding the July 13 exemptive order and its impact on swap dealers and their customers
FIA hosted this 60-minute webinar on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's approach to regulation of cross-border trading.
CONTINUE READINGDisruptive trading practices: understanding the CFTC’s guidance
FIA invited members to participate in a webinar on the recently issued “interpretive guidance” regarding the anti-disruptive trading practices authority of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
CONTINUE READINGComplying with CFTC Rule 1.73 for give-ups webinar: a discussion of the FIA give-up screening agreement
Attention executing and clearing brokers: The industry has been working to meet the June 1 deadline to comply with CFTC Rule 1.73 that requires executing firms to agree to screen customer orders for limits established by clearing firms with respect to give-up transactions.
CONTINUE READINGThe FIA-ISDA Cleared Derivatives Execution Agreement
This webinar will discuss the recently released FIA-ISDA Cleared Derivatives Execution Agreement--a template that can be used by participants in the cleared swaps markets in negotiating execution-related agreements with counterparties to over-the-counter derivatives that are intended to be cleared.
CONTINUE READINGFIA Speaks Episode 8: Mary Ann Burns
In this episode of FIA Speaks, FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken interviews a long-term FIA staff member and entrepreneur Mary Ann Burns. Mary Ann worked at FIA for 23 years helping build it from a small operation to a global presence and rising to COO of the organization. She left FIA to start a craft brewery called Old Ox Brewery with her son and husband in Northern Virginia. Walt and Mary Ann talk about getting started in the futures industry, building FIA, and what it’s like to start a small business with family and build it into a regional presence.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA response to the ESMA consultation on commercial terms for providing clearing services under EMIR (FRANDT)
FIA EPTA members are supportive of the overarching objective of the FRANDT concept which is to increase access to client clearing services by ensuring that clearing members provide clearing services on fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory, and transparent terms.
CONTINUE READINGFIA European Principal Traders Association responds to the ESMA consultation on MAR Review
FIA EPTA members support high standards of market integrity and agree with ESMA’s approach in its consultation on the Review of MAR. FIA EPTA members would welcome strengthening the EU regulatory framework for the Spot FX markets but note the need to take into account the specific product and market structure characteristics of Spot FX, including the global nature of the Spot FX markets.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA response to the ESMA Consultation on the Cost of Market Data and the Consolidated Tape
FIA EPTA agrees with ESMA’s assessment that user data fees are high and have increased over the past years. We also agree that new fees have been added and that market data policies and agreements are increasingly complex.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA response to the German Ministry of Finance Consultation on MiFID II/MiFIR
FIA EPTA welcomes the opportunity to respond to the consultation by the German Ministry of Finance on the implementation experiences of MiFID II in its first year of its application.
CONTINUE READINGEurope's leading trading firms respond to political agreement on a new prudential regime for investment firms
Piebe Teeboom, Secretary-General of FIA EPTA, the association representing the leading principal trading firms in Europe, welcomed yesterday’s political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on the Investment Firm Review (IFR/IFD) -- but stressed the importance of implementing the new regime in a proportionate way for Europe’s capital markets to be able to further develop and grow.
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