Automated trading has become an integral tool for an increasingly large percentage of market participants.
CONTINUE READINGVerena Ross, Executive Director of ESMA, recently delivered a keynote speech to the ABA/Law Society Capital Markets Conference in London. Her speech focused on the importance of increasing transparency in MiFID II “in a manner that does not 'damage' but instead improves the functioning of the market,” making particular mention of “those instruments, such as derivatives, that are still far from being traded in a fully transparent market.”
CONTINUE READINGFIA Chairman Gerald F. Corcoran testified on reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission before the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit today.
CONTINUE READINGToday, FIA released a comprehensive guide to the development and operation of automated trading systems.
CONTINUE READINGWashington, D.C.—March 23, 2015—Today, FIA released a comprehensive guide to the development and operation of automated trading systems.
CONTINUE READINGFIA has submitted its response to the ESMA Addendum Consultation Paper on Transparency.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA welcomes the opportunity to provide input to ESMA on their draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on Level 2 of MiFID II / MiFIR.
CONTINUE READINGFIA released a statement today in support of a CFTC final rule affecting certain procedural requirements for how futures commission merchants and their customers meet margin requirements.
CONTINUE READINGWith the publication of the recent Bank of England report demonstrating that high frequency trading makes pricing more accurate in the markets it seems a good time to consider not only why this is good for the markets, but why, in fact, it benefits the economy as a whole.
CONTINUE READINGThis Special Report is the sixth in the FIA and FIA Europe’s series covering specific areas of the European Securities and Markets Authority’s consultation process for the implementation of the recast Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (2014/65/EU) and Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (Regulation 600/2012) (“MiFIR”), which together are referred to as “MiFID II” and come into effect on 3 January 2017.
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