David Vogel was one of the many individuals who came to the forefront of the industry during the difficult years after the 1987 stock market crash and the FBI sting in 1989.
CONTINUE READINGHelmut Weymar had an extraordinary influence on the managed money business.
CONTINUE READINGBob Wilmouth will always be remembered for his leadership of the National Futures Association.
CONTINUE READINGJack Wing brought to the futures industry a unique ability to bring together people and ideas from the futures and securities markets.
CONTINUE READINGLeo Melamed is one of the most prominent leaders of the futures industry and has played a hand in almost all the major industry-wide developments of the past four decades.
CONTINUE READING“Derivatives are the highest financial life form on the planet…” was the opening of my dust jacket endorsement of Chris Culp’s recent book, Risk Transfer.
CONTINUE READINGThe Futures and Options Association (now FIA) in 2004 published the latest version of the Grid Trade Master Agreement (GTMA), which is a standard agreement for bilateral trading of UK electricity. It can be supplemented by the Options Annex to the GTMA. In 2005, the FOA (now FIA) also published a standard agreement for trading Renewables Obligation Certificates (ROCs) in the UK – the ROC Trading Master Agreement (ROCTMA).
CONTINUE READINGFIA submitted a comment letter to the CFTC supporting a proposed amendment to CFTC Rule 1.55(d)(1):
CONTINUE READINGEquity options and interest rate products boomed in the first quarter, giving U.S. exchanges a huge boost in volume.
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