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FIA asks FERC to limit scope of communications rule
FIA has offered comments to the US Federal Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding a proposed rulemaking that would substantially expand the scope of communications that are subject to FERC’s enforcement authority.
CONTINUE READINGExpo 2022 - The role of innovation and intermediation
Opening remarks of Walt Lukken, President and CEO of FIA, at the FIA Expo 2022 conference in Chicago. As prepared for delivery.
CONTINUE READINGQ3 2022 Trends in Futures and Options Trading
At the global level, trading volume is far ahead of last year, with more than 60 billion futures and options traded on exchanges during the first nine months of the year.
CONTINUE READINGDigital Asset Regulation and Insights for Asset Managers
K&L Gates discusses the evolving regulatory environment, recent enforcement actions and proposed U.S. legislation for digital assets and their impact on the asset management industry.
CONTINUE READINGFIA responds to EU Commission on clearing review
FIA recommends the European Commission takes into account international practices and continues the coordination of cross-border clearing and capital frameworks at an international level.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA response consultation on the review of the central clearing framework in the EU
FIA EPTA members believe that the Commission should firstly focus on opportunities to incentivise clearing of new transactions on EU CCPs as moving legacy positions to another CCP will create issues around higher cost and increased risk of closing and re-opening the cleared position on the market. FIA EPTA members believe that harmonisation of the different EU legal frameworks for cross-border activity would be helpful as EU CCPs require complex legal structures to ensure the enforceability of their rules in a default situation.
CONTINUE READINGFIA asks EC to expedite equivalence decisions of non-EU CCPs
FIA has jointly with ISDA, AFME, EBF and EFAMA written to Commissioner Mairead McGuinness requesting that the European Commission expedite the review of clearing arrangements in as many non-EU jurisdictions as possible.
CONTINUE READINGFIA PTG responds to public reporting aspect of the SEC large security-based swaps proposal
In a letter filed with the SEC (Commission) today, the FIA Principal Traders Group (FIA PTG) requested the Commission eliminate the public disclosure aspect of the security-based swaps proposal and focus on regulatory reporting instead.
CONTINUE READINGFIA responds to ASX Consultation on proposed changes to the ASX Recovery Rules
On 11 February, ASX issued its “Consultation on proposed changes to the ASX Recovery Rules to allocate US settlement bank investment losses between the ASX CCPs and their clearing participants”. The propose changes seek to address the increased investment exposure of clearing members to US settlement banks due to the inclusion of variation margin exposures in ASX Clear (Futures) overnight (2 a.m.) margin calls.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA response on the BaFin Consultation on a planned General Administrative Act regarding Futures with additional payment obligations
FIA EPTA members would like to emphasise that we value and support the objective by BaFin to prioritise investor protection. We agree that it is of the utmost importance to ensure that financial markets are transparent and safe for retail investors. However, as said, we do not consider that banning listed futures trading for retail investors, as now proposed by BaFin, will contribute to this objective, and in our view rather the opposite.
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