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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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Michael Spencer
Michael Spencer began his career in 1976, as an investment analyst at Simon and Coates. In 1980, he joined Drexel Burnham Lambert where he spent three years broking futures. Between 1983 and 1986, Spencer was a director at money broker Charles Fulton, until his involvement in the new interest rate swaps market led him to set up Intercapital in 1986. Intercapital grew over 10 years from four original staffers to over 300 employees with offices in London, New York and Sydney. In October 1998, Intercapital merged with EXCO, a listed money broker. The following year it merged again with Garban to form ICAP and named Spencer as its chief executive. In 2016, ICAP sold its global hybrid voice broking business to Tullett Prebon and the remaining ICAP businesses formed a new company called NEX Group where Spencer remained as chief executive. In 2018, NEX reached an agreement to be acquired by CME Group. After completion of the transaction, Spencer joined the CME Board in addition to working as a special adviser focused on integrating the business and evolving its client offerings. Spencer was named the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year 2010.
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ETD Volume - February 2019
Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.41 billion contracts in the month of February, down 10.7% from the previous month and down 1.6% from February 2018.
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Europe's leading trading firms respond to political agreement on a new prudential regime for investment firms
Piebe Teeboom, Secretary-General of FIA EPTA, the association representing the leading principal trading firms in Europe, welcomed yesterday’s political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on the Investment Firm Review (IFR/IFD) -- but stressed the importance of implementing the new regime in a proportionate way for Europe’s capital markets to be able to further develop and grow.
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Don't make it worse: responding properly to US/UK investigations
A webinar focusing on the proper way to respond to US/UK regulatory investigations.
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Annual Trends in Futures and Options Trading
This webinar will highlight the main trends in trading activity during 2018 in the global exchange-traded derivatives market.
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ETD Volume - January 2019
Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 2.70 billion contracts in the month of January, up 1.2% from the previous month and up 14.3% from January 2018. Total open interest at the end of January was 824.2 million contracts, down 4.3% from a year ago.
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Puleston Jones to depart FIA
FIA’s President and CEO Walt Lukken today announced his acceptance of the resignation of Simon Puleston Jones, who is leaving the organization for other business pursuits.
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FIA releases annual trading statistics showing record ETD volume in 2018
Washington, D.C.—Jan. 25, 2019—FIA today released summary statistics for annual trading activity in the global exchange-traded derivatives markets that showed record activity in 2018.
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