Viewpoint
Insights and opinions from key FIA staff
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Viewpoint - Getting margin right
When derivatives markets become more volatile, everyone agrees that margin requirements must go up. But how much higher? Set margins too high, and trading becomes too expensive. Set margins too low, and traders take too much risk. It's the Goldilocks problem – margin needs to be just right.
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Viewpoint – Stronger together at Boca
After three years away, Boca exceeded my expectations. Nothing was going to dissuade our industry from getting back together in 2022. Last week, FIA welcomed nearly 1,100 delegates to Boca, matching our pre-pandemic numbers for conference attendees. We also saw record sponsorships, thanks to many traditional partners and some first timers who see our industry as strategically attractive.
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Viewpoint – Sending some love to the FCM community
FCMs are tremendously important to vibrant and safe cleared derivatives markets, and the global economy as a whole. They connect customers to our markets – particularly commercial end-users and hedgers – to provide liquidity and assist with price discovery.
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Viewpoint – Our heads in the clouds
I am struck by the enormous change that seemed to happen under our noses in our capital and risk markets—mostly driven by disruptive technology and the convergence of big tech and Wall Street.
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Viewpoint – A new focus on operations and standards
FIA has embarked on an initiative to assess the lessons we learned from the March 2020 volatility, and to develop a strategy to improve and modernize our settlement workflow.
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Viewpoint – Encouraging innovation in derivatives markets
Since FIA launched its Innovators Pavilion program in 2015, more than 100 startups have come to the FIA Expo in Chicago and demonstrated their innovations to key people in the derivatives industry.
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Viewpoint – Where did the summer go?
In his latest Viewpoint column, FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken writes that the euro clearing debate, operations and standards and China's futures law are just some of the areas that have kept FIA busy this summer.
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Viewpoint – Crypto and climate: A tale of two topics
While climate change and crypto assets are clearly top of mind, the policy agenda around them remains cloudy. Our markets can play a significant role in both.
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Viewpoint – FIA Tech grows up
10 global clearing firms invested a total of $44 million in FIA Tech to help in the development of the next generation of industry solutions.
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Viewpoint – The end of an era
The 2021 announcement that CME will close most of its trading pits caught some by surprise, but it shouldn’t have. We all knew this day was coming, but it doesn’t take the sting out of it
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