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Joint trade association letter to APAC regulators on reciprocal business continuity plans
On 5 October 2020, FIA, joined AFMA, ASIFMA, IBA and ISDA, to submit a letter to the financial regulators in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore to request for reciprocal Business Continuity Plan (BCP) arrangements between jurisdictions.
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ETD Volume - September 2020
Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 4.24 billion contracts in the month of September, up 13.9% from the previous month and up 41.2% from September 2019.
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FIA Legal Opinions Primer
If you are an experienced user of FIA legal opinions, new to the world of FIA netting and other legal opinions for regulatory capital purposes or just curious as to why FIA maintains a library of legal opinions, then this FIA webinar where experts from Clifford Chance LLP and FIA explain the types of legal opinions that FIA maintains, their structure and purpose in the context of regulatory capital requirements is for you.
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FIA announces new board chair, vice chair and new board members
FIA today announced that the Board of Directors have elected Nicholas Rustad of J.P. Morgan Securities as Chair and Alicia Crighton of Goldman Sachs as Vice Chair of the FIA Board of Directors.
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FIA paper on the necessity, path and related issues of opening the financial futures market
FIA greatly appreciates CFFEX’s interest in these critical topics that affect the global financial markets and the end-users who rely on derivatives products for price certainty and to hedge their risks. FIA strongly supports the regulatory recognition and deference model that has been the foundation of the futures industry for years. Identical rules, on a line-by-line basis, implemented globally across jurisdictions is impracticable.
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FIA and FIA PTG join over two dozen trade groups in opposing NJ FTT proposal
On 6 October, FIA and FIA PTG joined over two dozen trade groups in sending letters of opposition to the New Jersey legislature, highlighting concerns about legislative proposals that would impose a tax on high-quantity processors of financial transactions.
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FIA Speaks Episode 14: CFTC Commissioner Russ Behnam on Climate Change
In this episode, Russ Behnam of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission talks with FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken about the CFTC agenda and the commissioner’s groundbreaking work on the risks to financial markets posed by climate change.
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Viewpoint - Markets are key to solving climate problem
My former boss and mentor, Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, was extremely proud of his grove of black walnut trees on his 604-acre farm southwest of Indianapolis. You might say he was obsessed with them.
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September 2020 SEF trading activity
Trading volume on SEFs reached $726 billion in average notional value per day during September 2020. Trading was up in every category.
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FIA urges market participants to prioritize data standardization
"Tag 1031" effort to resolve brokerage rate issues is an important example of industry-led solutions
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