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FIA announces diversity initiative
FIA’s Board of Directors today announced a new board-level initiative to encourage and support diversity in the futures industry.
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Manipulation law under the Commodity Exchange Act
This Law & Compliance Division webinar explored the current landscape of manipulation law under the CEA, and what these recent decisions mean both for the CFTC's enforcement program and private litigants.
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FIA announces 2019 Futures Hall of Fame inductees
FIA announced today the induction of 13 members into the FIA Futures Hall of Fame. This year’s class joins 144 other honorees in the Hall of Fame, which was established in 2005 on FIA’s 50th anniversary.
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Christopher K. Hehmeyer
Chris Hehmeyer is the manager and chief executive officer of proprietary trading firm Hehmeyer LLC and its subsidiaries. He is a registered floor broker with the National Futures Association, and has served on NFA’s board of directors for nine years and is past chairman of the board. Hehmeyer is a member of the board of directors of FIA, where he has served in several capacities, including vice-chairman of the board. Hehmeyer was one of the founding partners of Goldenberg, Hehmeyer & Co., a futures commission merchant and clearing member firm at the Chicago Board of Trade and CME Group. He was a managing director of Virginia Trading Corporation from 1981 until the establishment of the GHCO partnership in 1984. When GHCO was sold to Penson Worldwide in 2007, Hehmeyer became the CEO of Penson GHCO until 2010. Hehmeyer became a full member of the CBOT in 1981 and was a member of its board of directors from 1984 to 1987 and served on over 40 committees. He also served on the board of governors of the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation from 1993 until 1999, and as chairman from 1996 to 1998. He began his career as a runner on the trading floor in 1977.
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FIA co-signs letter on equivalence of trading venues under EMIR and MiFIR
Today FIA, alongside ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association), AFME (Association for Financial Markets in Europe), AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association), Assosim (Association for Financial Market Intermediaries), EBF (European Banking Federation), EFET (European Federation of Energy Traders), ICI-Global (Investment Company Institute), IA (Investment Association) and SIFMA AMG (Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Asset Management Group) signed a letter to European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis regarding the equivalence of UK trading venues.
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Andreas Preuss
Andreas Preuss served as a member of the executive board of Deutsche Börse from 2006 to 2018, and was its deputy CEO from 2008 to 2018.
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Kim Taylor
Kim Taylor was president of clearing and post-trade services at CME Group, retiring at the end of 2017. Previously, Taylor had served as president of global operations, technology & risk from 2014 to 2016. Before that, Taylor served as president of CME Clearing since 2004 when CME began clearing all Chicago Board of Trade contracts. She led the clearinghouse through the challenges of CME’s subsequent acquisitions of CBOT and the New York Mercantile Exchange, as well as leading the industry through the 2008 financial crisis and the MF Global bankruptcy in 2011. Taylor joined CME in 1989 as a senior analyst, assuming responsibility in 1998 for risk management and serving on the CME executive management team from 2004 until her retirement. She currently serves on the boards of directors for First Midwest Bank, Eventus Systems, and Alma College and previously served on the board for both ISDA and the Illinois Math and Science Academy. In 2014 Crain’s Chicago Business named Taylor number nine on its list of the top 20 most powerful women in Chicago business.
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Robert Cox
Bob Cox was a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a long-time industry leader and former member of FIA’s board. Cox was a key advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on matters involving central counterparty risk and derivatives, serving as vice president in the financial markets group for the bank until his death in December 2018. Before joining the Chicago Fed, Cox was the head of the listed derivatives and clearing business for HSBC in the Americas and the founder and head of the futures business of Goldman Sachs in East Asia. He also served as a board member at the Hong Kong Clearing Corporation and the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX), and was a member of the Hong Kong Exchange Group’s Clearing Consultative Panel. In his early career he was a member of the Mid America Commodity Exchange in Chicago, where he was chairman of the Rules Committee and the Membership Committee. Cox was a graduate of Northwestern University and studied at the International School of Manila, Philippines.
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Anthony George Gero
George Gero is a managing director at RBC Wealth Management and serves on the COMEX Governors Committee. He previously was the vice president of Global Futures at RBC Capital Markets. Gero has served on the FCM committee of FIA and as the president of the International Precious Metals Institute. He also has served on the governing boards of the Cotton Exchange, NYMEX, COMEX and PHLX and as the chairman of the Commodity Floor Brokers and Traders Association. Before joining RBC in 2005, Gero was a senior vice president of Legg Mason Wood Walker and at Prudential Securities, where he served as a first vice president for 22 years. Gero has been a member of NYMEX since 1966 and served on its board of directors since 1976, and has been a member of COMEX since 1976, the American Stock Exchange since 1995, and the New York Board of Trade (eventually ICE Futures U.S.) since 1984. He was elected to the board of the Financial Instruments Exchange (FINEX) and the New York Cotton Exchange in 1995. Commodity Clearing Corporation (now ICE Clear U.S.) elected him a director in 1996. Previously, Gero served as a member of the joint task force, steering committee, swap and OTC derivative product committees of the Securities Industry Association.
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Garry Jones
Garry Jones has over 35 years of experience in financial services, and has been CEO of three of the largest derivatives and OTC exchanges in Europe: BrokerTec, LIFFE and the London Metal Exchange. Jones was part of the initial management team at BrokerTec, becoming CEO and president before running ICAP Electronic Broking (Europe) — the forerunner of NEX. Under his leadership, Brokertec became the largest global OTC trading platform. Jones then joined NYSE Euronext in 2005 and was global head of derivatives and CEO of the NYSE LIFFE exchange. In 2013, he became co-head of markets at HKEX and CEO of the London Metal Exchange. He left HKEX in 2017, remaining an advisor to the company until 2018. Jones was a founding member of the Futures and Options Association’s European Industry Council and was a member of the U.K.’s Financial Services Authority senior practitioner panel that advised on new policy initiatives. He served on the board of The Federation of European Security Exchanges and as alternate board member of the World Federation of Exchanges. Jones also served as a director of LCH.Clearnet as well as the Qatar Exchange.
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