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Treasury Market Structure

  • FIA comments on ICE's US Treasury clearing proposal

    FIA filed comments with the US Securities and Exchange Commission responding to ICE Clear Credit's proposed US Treasury clearing rules. The letter commends ICC for its efforts to expand its clearing services to the U.S. Treasury market and recommends refinements to certain aspects of the proposed rules to ensure predictability and clarity for clearing firms and market participants that will participate on ICC's platform, once approved.

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  • FIA PTG responds to FINRA TRACE transaction reporting proposal

    In a letter filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the FIA Principal Traders Group applauded FINRA for eliminating the harmful manual trade exception previously approved but never implemented, and encouraged FINRA to continue to improve the TRACE regime, including by shortening the reporting timeframe for all transactions.

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  • FIA letter to President Trump highlights priorities and opportunities

    FIA's letter highlights US bank capital proposals, US Treasury clearing, evolving market structures and emerging technology/AI

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  • FIA, FIA PTG, trade associations request extension of US Treasury clearing mandate

    FIA, FIA Principal Traders Group and six other financial services trade associations wrote to the SEC requesting an extension of the US Treasury clearing mandate of at least twelve months for both the cash and repo clearing mandates.

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  • FIA, FIA PTG, trade associations request extension of US Treasury clearing mandate

    FIA, FIA Principal Traders Group and six other financial services trade associations wrote to the SEC requesting an extension of the US Treasury clearing mandate of at least twelve months for both the cash and repo clearing mandates.

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  • FIA PTG Responds Again to FICC Proposals in Response To Treasury Clearing Mandate

    In a letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the FIA Principal Traders Group (FIA PTG) commented again on the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s (“FICC”) proposals to revise its customer clearing access models, to modify its margin segregation rules and to adopt a trade submission requirement.

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  • FIA PTG responds to FICC trade submission requirement proposal

    In a letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, the FIA Principal Traders Group (FIA PTG) responded to the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s (FICC) trade submission requirement proposal.

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  • FIA PTG responds to CBOT block trade reporting window change  

    In a letter filed with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the FIA Principal Traders Group raised concerns with the self-certified rule change by the Chicago Board of Trade that extends the block trade reporting window for certain CBOT US Treasury futures contracts.

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  • FIA PTG responds to FICC Rule Change Proposals

    In a letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, the FIA Principal Traders Group (FIA PTG) responded to the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation’s (FICC) proposals to revise its customer clearing access models and to modify its margin segregation rules.

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  • FIA PTG responds to FINRA proposal to further shorten reporting windows for some bond contracts

    In a letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, the FIA Principal Traders Group (FIA PTG) urged the SEC to reject the Proposal which would reduce the current 15-Minute TRACE reporting timeframe to one minute across certain bond markets.

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