FIA today joined The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA), the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the American Bankers Association (ABA), and the Bank Policy Institute (BPI) in submitting comments regarding the proposed rule issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to implement the standardized approach for counterparty credit risk (SA-CCR) as a replacement for the current exposure method (CEM) in the US capital rules.
CONTINUE READINGThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission held an open meeting on March 25 to vote on two swap-related rulemakings.
CONTINUE READINGThis year’s Boca 2019 kick-off panel considered the impact of a range of issues, including technology, regulation, globalization and consolidation, as industry leaders assess the critical steps required to ensure the on-going health of our markets.
CONTINUE READINGSpeakers at Boca 2019 contemplate cryptocurrency's effects on the industry.
CONTINUE READINGGlobal futures and options volume rise 13.7%, but credit crisis damages liquidity in the core markets
CONTINUE READINGOn behalf of FIA’s board of directors and members, I wanted to take a moment to remember a dear friend that we unexpectedly lost last week—Bob Cox.
CONTINUE READINGA webinar presentation by Galen Burghardt, senior vice president and director of research at Newedge, and Will Acworth, editor of Futures Industry, on the global futures and options volume trends described in the March issue of Futures Industry.
CONTINUE READINGFIA today submitted a comment letter in support of the CFTC and SEC’s effort to update, harmonize and simplify decades-old rules with respect to the minimum required margin to be collected by security futures intermediaries.
CONTINUE READINGOn Aug. 5, FIA filed a comment letter with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in response to the CFTC’s “Foreign Futures and Options Transactions” proposal.
CONTINUE READINGFIA President and CEO Walt Lukken today made the following statement on the retirement announcement of House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Mike Conaway
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