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FIA seeks clarification on Ukraine Sanctions
On Aug. 1, FIA submitted a letter to the Office of Foreign Assets Control, a division of the U.S. Treasury Department, to provide information concerning the FCM role in managing its customer positions in the futures markets and the potential market impact if an FCM customer with open positions becomes the subject of asset-blocking sanctions.
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FIA files supplemental comment on position limits
FIA submitted a comment letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on July 31 in response to a request for additional comment on the agency’s proposed position limits rule and its proposed position aggregation rule.
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Joint Trade Associations Letter to IOSCO Secretary General on UTIs
Joint Trade Associations Letter to IOSCO Secretary General on UTIs
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Statement from FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken on the resignation of CFTC Commissioner Scott O’Malia
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced today that Commissioner Scott O’Malia will step down later this month. FIA issued the following statement in response to the announcement.
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FIA elects new chairman and two new board members
FIA today announced that the members of FIA’s board of directors elected Gerald F. Corcoran, chairman and chief executive officer of R.J. O’Brien & Associates LLC, as chairman of FIA.
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CFTC further extends the reopened comment period for its rulemaking proposals on position limits for physical commodity derivatives and aggregation
The CFTC further extended the public comment period for the proposed position limits rule, as well as the related proposal regarding aggregation of positions across commonly owned affiliates.
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FIA statement on House vote to reauthorize the CFTC
Walt Lukken, President and CEO of FIA, issued a statement today after the House passed H.R. 4413, the Consumer Protection and End User Relief Act.
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Squeezing the middlemen
The need for middlemen in modern market structure has been much discussed since the publication of ‘Flash Boys’. The idea prevailing is that in today’s technological age middlemen are no longer needed to help market participants find each other, and are simply making easy profit at the expense of the little guy.
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FIA-ISDA Cleared Derivatives Execution Agreement
The Futures Industry Association and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today announced the publication of the FIA-ISDA Cleared Derivatives Execution Agreement as a template that can be used by participants in the cleared swaps markets in negotiating execution-related agreements with counterparties to over-the-counter derivatives that are intended to be cleared.
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