Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives reached 9.66 billion contracts in August. This decreased 4.7% from July 2025 and decreased 49.8% from August 2024.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA has joined AFME and EFAMA in a call on stock exchanges to improve outage management. The associations set out four priorities to support more resilient markets.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA has responded to a European Banking Authority consultation regarding draft guidelines on the sound management of third-party risk with regard to non-ICT related services. FIA EPTA members support robust risk management and the EBA’s efforts toward the enhancement of operational resilience. However, we have significant concerns regarding the proposal’s legal basis, proportionality, misalignment with the EU simplification and growth agenda, and the EBA’s cost-benefit analysis.
CONTINUE READINGIn responding to proposed rule changes from TMX, FIA expresses support for the larger project underway to revise TMX's Approved Persons framework and voices concerns about the burden associated with the most recent proposed rule changes.
CONTINUE READINGFIA has responded to the European Banking Authority’s consultation on third party risk management for non-ICT services. In the response, FIA highlights issues for consideration by the EBA for the guidelines to more proportionately enhance third party oversight in the EU financial sector landscape.
CONTINUE READINGFIA filed comments with the US Securities and Exchange Commission responding to ICE Clear Credit's proposed US Treasury clearing rules. The letter commends ICC for its efforts to expand its clearing services to the U.S. Treasury market and recommends refinements to certain aspects of the proposed rules to ensure predictability and clarity for clearing firms and market participants that will participate on ICC's platform, once approved.
CONTINUE READINGRegulators and market leaders debated the merits of centralised supervision in the EU, challenges in implementing EMIR 3.0, and the UK’s approach to systemically important clearinghouses, among other topics, at FIA’s forum in Paris.
CONTINUE READINGThe need for regulatory simplification and a growing trend of product and technology innovation were among the topics discussed during a panel on challenges and opportunities in the European derivatives markets at the FIA Paris Forum on 25 September.
CONTINUE READINGFIA recommends involving the China Securities Regulatory Commission alongside other authorities when determining the scope of qualified financial transactions, and ensuring equal legal protection for similar products regardless of where they are traded, cleared or settled. FIA also proposes adding a new article providing clear recognition and protection for financial market infrastructure operators.
CONTINUE READINGWhile in Paris for the FIA Forum, Walt Lukken sat down with Klaus Löber, Chair of the CCP Supervisory Committee at the European Securities Markets Authority, to discuss market trends, regulatory simplification, EMIR 3.0 and the importance of working with other international regulators.
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