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FIA warns of increased market fragmentation caused by regulation
Boca Raton, FL – FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken today released a white paper that expresses FIA’s concerns about increased fragmentation of the global listed and cleared derivatives markets due to inconsistent and duplicative regulatory frameworks.
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Remarks of FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken at Boca 2019
Welcome everyone to Boca 2019, the 44th annual gathering of the futures and derivatives industry in south Florida, or as Jeremy Grant, the former FT journalist, termed it, “Best Industry Event—Ever.” Or put another way – Boca means business!
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Opening Remarks - Boca 2019
FIA President & CEO Walt Lukken kicks off the 44th International Futures Industry Conference - Boca 2019.
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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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Paul Davies
Paul Davies spent over 30 years in the investment banking industry, primarily in futures and options, including 25 years at Goldman Sachs where he last served as managing director and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Futures in Singapore. Davies was instrumental in the formation and growth of FIA Asia (now part of FIA), serving as chairman of its board of directors and setting the organization on the successful path it has followed to this day. Davies began his career in banking at Hill Samuel Bank in London prior to his move to Goldman Sachs in 1992. In 1996, he was sent to Singapore for a threemonth assignment which eventually turned into a stay of over 20 years. Throughout his career, Davies had various sales and operations roles in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore. He served in a variety of leadership roles across the Asia-Pacific region, including chairman of the Singapore Exchange Derivatives Advisory Committee, a member of the Singapore Exchange Disciplinary Committee and chairman of the board of directors for the DTCC Data Repository in Singapore. Since his departure from Goldman Sachs, Davies has been managing his private investments and serving as director at Pimp My Tuk-Tuk, a philanthropic venture that raises funds to help the underprivileged children of Sri Lanka.
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Phupinder Gill
Phupinder Gill retired as CEO of CME Group in 2016, after four years running the firm’s day-to-day operations and implementing strategic initiatives to expand CME’s core business into new areas of listed, overthe-counter and emerging markets. He first joined the company in 1988.
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Bonnie Litt
From 1989 through 2018, Bonnie Litt was a lawyer at Goldman Sachs, most recently serving as managing director and practice group head for its U.S. prime services practice that included prime brokerage, futures, cleared derivatives and securities clearing. At Goldman Sachs, Litt was a member of the firm’s exchange and clearing house review committee, its securities division client business standards committee and regional new products committee. Throughout her career, she was an active member of the FIA Law and Compliance Division, serving as a member of the executive committee from 1994 through 2018 and serving as the group’s president from 2008 to 2010. Litt also served on the CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee from 2004 to 2009, the NFA board of directors from 2002 to 2006 and the NFA FCM Advisory Committee. In 2018, Litt left Goldman to pursue her long-term interest in education reform and access by joining Success Academy Charter Schools as general counsel. She is also a member of the board of directors of Breakthrough New York, a 10-year college success program focused on low income New York children. She has been board chair of BTNY since 2016.
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Lee B. Stern
Lee Stern has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange since 1949, and is one of its longest serving active members.
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