FIA responded to the ESMA Consultation Paper on draft guidelines on the MiFID II/MiFIR obligations on market data from the perspective of market data users.
CONTINUE READINGFIA President and CEO Walt Lukken reflects on the recent insurrection at the US Capitol.
CONTINUE READINGFIA President and CEO today made the following statement on the nomination of Gary Gensler to lead the SEC.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 4.63 billion contracts in the month of December, up 4.1% from the previous month and up 64% from December 2019.
CONTINUE READINGFIA statement on the change of administration and new acting chair of the CFTC
CONTINUE READINGThis Special Report is the sixth in FIA and FIA Europe’s series covering specific areas of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (“ESMA”) consultation process for the implementation of the recast Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID II”) and the new Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (“MiFIR”).
CONTINUE READINGFIA today released yearly statistics that show the total number of futures and options traded on exchanges worldwide reached a record level of 46.77 billion contracts in 2020, up 35.6% from 2019.
CONTINUE READINGThis panel provides an overview of the CFTC’s considerable volume of enforcement activity in 2020. Panelists focus on enforcement trends and developments while also recapping the busy regulatory agenda of the outgoing administration. The panel provides a look ahead to what market participants can expect from the CFTC under the incoming Biden Administration in 2021.
CONTINUE READING2020 was a record-breaking year for trading activity in the global exchange-traded derivatives markets, with both volume and open interest reaching all-time highs.
CONTINUE READINGTrading volume on SEFs reached $678 billion in average notional value per day during May 2020. This month had the lowest amount of trading so far in 2020. Trading was down in every category except in the non-forward rate agreement sector.
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