The following Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) and Delegated Acts were published in the EU Official Journal (OJ) on 31 March 2017. All apply from 3 January 2018 except where noted.
CONTINUE READINGPresident Bill Clinton appointed Bill Rainer to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission at a critical time when the agency was dealing with the issues involved in the growth of the swaps market.
CONTINUE READINGFrom initial capital of $8 million, Julian Robertson built Tiger Management into the world’s largest hedge fund with capital of more than $23 billion.
CONTINUE READINGFor more than four decades, Jerrold Salzman has served as a leading expert in the laws and regulations that impact our industry and as a leader in the derivatives bar.
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 READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.86 billion contracts in the month of March, up 18.7% from the previous month and up 11.7% from March 2018.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.54 billion contracts in the month of June, down 5% from the previous month but up 9.3% from June 2017.
CONTINUE READINGFIA President & CEO Walt Lukken discussed the implementation of Dodd-Frank in a keynote speech delivered at the SIFMA Compliance and Legal Seminar on April 2, 2014. Lukken focused on five broad trends affecting the derivatives industry and emphasized the need for regulatory pragmatism and cooperation as the new rules are put into effect.
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CONTINUE READINGOn Jan. 31, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Market Risk Advisory Committee held a day-long meeting to discuss the self-certification process used by Cboe Futures Exchange and CME Group to launch bitcoin futures.
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