FIA formally petitioned the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to amend its rules to clarify the margin treatment of separate customer accounts.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.89 billion contracts in the month of July, up 1.1% from the previous month and up 36.2% from July 2018.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.86 billion contracts in the month of June, down 7.2% from the previous month but up 12.6% from June 2018.
CONTINUE READINGFIA President and CEO Walt Lukken made the following statement on the passing of futures industry leader George Gero.
CONTINUE READINGFIA and GFMA wrote in support of a draft law in China to establish reasonable and proportionate mechanisms to safeguard personal information.
CONTINUE READINGFIA President and CEO Walt Lukken made the following statement following FIA’s participation in a public consultation led by the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets (TSVCM).
CONTINUE READING3 June 2014 - On 22 May 2014, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published a Discussion Paper (ESMA/2014/548) and Consultation Paper (ESMA/2014/549), which together herald the launch of its consultation process for the implementation of the recast Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID II”) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (“MiFIR”).
CONTINUE READINGFIA strongly condemns the violence that took place today at the US Capitol and urges elected officials to unite in denouncing these actions.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA welcomes the opportunity to respond to the FCA Call for Input on accessing and using wholesale data. Below, we respond to the FCA’s questions in relation to trading data, benchmarks and market data vendor services. FIA EPTA members observe that user data fees are high and have increased over the past years. Empirical data which we have analysed substantiates this. We also observe that new fees have been added and that market data policies and agreements are increasingly complex.
CONTINUE READINGFIA responded to the FCA Call for Input on focused on the topic of market data from the market data users’ perspective and has been drafted with exchange-traded derivatives.
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