FIA President John Damgard testified on September 8 at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
CONTINUE READINGAs a Kansas congressman and then senator, Bob Dole was far ahead of his colleagues in understanding the benefits of futures for U.S. agriculture.
CONTINUE READINGTom Donovan presided over the Chicago Board of Trade for nearly two decades.
CONTINUE READINGMarcy Engel’s breadth of knowledge reaches across the financial services markets.
CONTINUE READINGBob Feduniak was one of the first people on Wall Street to use his expertise with derivatives as the basis for global risk management.
CONTINUE READINGFew in the managed money industry can claim a record as successful as Keith Campbell’s.
CONTINUE READINGMax Chapman was one of the heroes when the futures industry was under attack from those in Washington who believed that stock index futures were the cause of the stock market crash in 1987.
CONTINUE READINGFred Arditti, Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s chief economist from 1980 to 1982, played a critical role in the development of the Eurodollar futures contract, today the most actively traded futures contract in the world and one of the most essential building blocks of the interest rate swaps market.
CONTINUE READINGJohn Benjamin spent 40 years in the futures industry and played a leading role as a bridge between the Wall Street investment banks and the Chicago exchange community.
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