Max 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 READINGMike Dawley, the outgoing chairman of the FIA, is a managing director and the futures product leader within the global clearing and execution business at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York.
CONTINUE READINGBarbara Dixon was one of the first women in the managed futures business.
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 READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.41 billion contracts in the month of February, down 10.7% from the previous month and down 1.6% from February 2018.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.70 billion contracts in the month of January, up 1.2% from the previous month and up 14.3% from January 2018. Total open interest at the end of January was 824.2 million contracts, down 4.3% from a year ago.
CONTINUE READINGYasuo Mogi has been a key figure in Japan’s futures markets for more than 40 years.
CONTINUE READINGEdmund O’Connor was the architect of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and for decades he was a major figure in the Chicago derivatives trading community.
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