FIA 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 READINGGreetings to FIA members from my home office on Capitol Hill where I split my days between my makeshift offices in my laundry room and basement. It’s certainly not glamorous but the good news is that I can simultaneously advocate for our markets while knocking off a couple of loads of laundry.
CONTINUE READINGFIA, jointly with ISDA, AFME, EFET and Europex, wrote to ESMA to express our concerns in relation to the requirement for benchmark administrators to comply with additional obligations set out in Regulation (EU) 2019/2089 (‘Low Carbon Benchmarks Regulation’) by 30 April 2020.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.671 billion contracts in the month of May, up 15.7% from the previous month and up 19.8% from May 2017.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.307 billion contracts in the month of April, down 9.9% from the previous month but up 20.5% from April 2017.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.56 billion contracts in the month of March, up 4.6% from the previous month and up 10.7% from March 2017.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.447 billion contracts in the month of February, up 3.7% from the previous month and up 31.8% from February 2017.
CONTINUE READINGFIA has submitted its response to the ESMA Addendum Consultation Paper on Transparency.
CONTINUE READINGOn 3 April 2018, FIA submitted a letter (attachment below) to the Singapore Exchange in response to their proposed refinements to the SGX-DC Clearing Fund structure.
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