Leo 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 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.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 3 billion contracts in the month of September, down 11.7% from the previous month but up 27.2% from September 2018
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.89 billion contracts in the month of July, up 1.1% from the previous month and up 36.2% from July 2018.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.86 billion contracts in the month of June, down 7.2% from the previous month but up 12.6% from June 2018.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.63 billion contracts in the month of April, down 7.9% from the previous month but up 14% from April 2018.
CONTINUE READINGIn a letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, the FIA Principal Traders Group (FIA PTG) urged the SEC not to approve Cboe BYX’s proposal to introduce Periodic Auctions for the Trading of U.S. Equity Securities.
CONTINUE READINGFIA has published a new policy paper, "How derivatives markets are helping the world fight climate change," in consultation with its members across the cleared derivatives industry on climate-related risks for financial markets and the global economy.
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