FIA is pleased to announce the addition of several more speakers to this year’s annual futures and options expo, the world’s largest annual gathering of professionals in the listed and cleared derivatives markets.
CONTINUE READINGThis Special Report is the third in the 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 Regulation (“MiFIR”).
CONTINUE READINGFIA, FIA PTG and FIA EPTA wrote to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on 11 September 2015 setting out their views on third country firms engaged in dealing exclusively on own account or providing services/performing investment activities outside the EU to clients outside the EU when accessing European markets through direct membership of DEA under MiFID II.
CONTINUE READINGThe Futures Industry Association and CME Group have filed an amicus brief in a legal proceeding relating to an insurance claim in the MF Global estate.
CONTINUE READINGOn Jan. 22 FIA provided the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with its views on certain issues related to the CFTC’s proposed position limit and aggregation rules.
CONTINUE READINGOn Nov. 13, FIA submitted comments to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission welcoming the CFTC’s proposed modifications to its aggregation rules and recommending certain refinements to enhance the efficacy of those rules.
CONTINUE READINGAt the end of September 2016, FIA filed jointly with ISDA, GFMA, EFET and WMBA two letters to ESMA, asking for clarifications regarding the scope of the position limits regime under Art. 57 of MiFID II.
CONTINUE READINGOn 28 October, FIA filed its response to FCA Consultation Paper 16/19 on MiFID II implementation in the UK.
CONTINUE READINGOn 2 December, FIA, GFMA and ISDA submitted a joint response to the ESMA Consultation Paper on draft technical standards under the Benchmarks Regulation (BMR).
CONTINUE READINGFIA today released its annual report on global trends in the trading of futures and options.
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