FOA response to the EBA Discussion Paper on Draft Regulatory Technical Standards on the Capital Requirements for CCPs Under the Draft Regulation on OTC Derivatives, CCPs and Trade Repositories
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CONTINUE READINGFOA Response to CP12/7: Financial Services Compensation Scheme: changes to the Compensation sourcebook
CONTINUE READINGFOA Response to ESMA's Discussion Paper on Draft Technical Standards for the Regulation on OTC Derivatives, CCPs and Trade Repositories
CONTINUE READINGThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission hosted a wide-ranging discussion of high-frequency trading at a meeting of its Technology Advisory Committee on March 29, 2012.
CONTINUE READINGFIA European Principal Traders Association (FIA EPTA) looks forward to the draft report on the proposed revision to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) and the proposal for the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) by MEP Markus Ferber.
CONTINUE READINGBuilding on recent FIA publications, including Market Access Risk Management Recommendations (April 2010) and Recommendations for Risk Controls for Trading Firms (November 2010), this document offers a number of recommendations for executing firms to consider both in designing policies for their own brokers that handle orders electronically and in dealing with customers that access the markets through a broker’s trading platform.
CONTINUE READINGBuilding on recent FIA publications, including Market Access Risk Management Recommendations (April 2010) and Recommendations for Risk Controls for Trading Firms (November 2010), this document offers a number of recommendations for executing firms to consider both in designing policies for their own brokers that handle orders electronically and in dealing with customers that access the markets through a broker’s trading platform.
CONTINUE READINGGlobal Futures and Options Trading Climbed 11.4% in 2011
CONTINUE READINGWashington, D.C.—Feb. 29, 2012—The Futures Industry Association released two documents today to address issues related to the bankruptcy of MF Global.
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