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FIA PTG Responds to FINRA Wash Sale Proposal
The FIA Principal Traders Group submitted a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 6, 2014 in response to a FINRA proposed rule change relating to self-trades.
CONTINUE READINGFIA PTG discusses automated trading risk controls at CFTC TAC meeting
Rob Creamer, president of Geneva Trading and chairman of FIA PTG, gave a presentation on automated trading at a Feb. 10 meeting of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee. The presentation highlighted key points from the comment letter submitted by FIA in response to the CFTC’s concept release on risk controls and system safeguards for automated trading. FIA PTG members helped draft the comment letter and developed many of the comment letter’s responses to the CFTC’s questions about risk controls and system safeguards currently in use in the futures industry.
CONTINUE READINGFIA Volume Report: Global Futures and Options Volume Rose 2.1% to 21.64 Billion in 2013
FIA today released its annual report on global trends in the trading of futures and options. According to statistics gathered by FIA from 84 exchanges worldwide, 21.64 billion futures and options contracts were traded in 2013, an increase of 2.1% from the previous year, but still well below the number of contracts traded in 2011 and 2010.
CONTINUE READINGFIA Europe’s Special Report – Derivatives Clearing 2014
This special report provides valuable insight into key developments in the clearing of derivatives globally, including assessments of the impact of regulatory change on market infrastructures, intermediaries and end-users.
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