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  • FIA announces new board members at Boca 2024

    FIA today announced the election of three new directors at its annual meeting in Boca Raton, Florida: Susan Gaughan, Société Générale, Nelson Neale, CHS Hedging LLC, and Harris L. Kay, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. 

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  • FIA releases report on derivatives industry trends

    The 14-page report, Derivatives Market Structure 2024: Focusing on Capital and Workflow Efficiency, provides a unique perspective into the key drivers for the global clearing business. The report is based on findings from research of market participants conducted jointly by FIA and Coalition Greenwich, a provider of strategic benchmarking, analytics and insights to the financial services industry.

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  • FIA announces 2024 President’s Award winners

    FIA today announced the winners of its President's Award, an annual honor that recognizes outstanding individuals for their contributions to the global cleared derivatives industry over the past year.

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  • FIA announces 2024 Hall of Fame honorees

    FIA today announced the induction of 12 new members into the FIA Hall of Fame. The new members will be honored at an awards ceremony during FIA's annual International Futures Industry Conference in Boca Raton, Fla., on 12 March.

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  • FIA gives remarks on bank capital proposals at CFTC meeting

    Wide range of end-users and financial market utilities voice concerns

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  • FIA response to provisional EMIR 3.0. agreement

    FIA congratulates the Council of the EU and the European Parliament on reaching a provisional political agreement on the review of the European market infrastructure regulation and directive (EMIR 3.0). FIA supports positive incentives to further enhance the attractiveness of EU clearing and EU capital markets. However, FIA remains convinced that any measures to increase the attractiveness of EU clearing should be guided by the principle of facilitating client choice on where to clear and protecting the international competitiveness of EU market participants.

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  • Global futures and options volume hits record 137 billion contracts in 2023

    FIA today released statistics on the number of futures and options traded on exchanges worldwide in 2023. The total volume of trading reached 137.3 billion contracts in 2023, up 64% from the previous year. This was the sixth consecutive year of record-setting trading activity in the global listed derivatives markets.

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  • US bank capital proposals would increase capital requirements for client clearing by 80%

    FIA estimates that top six US clearing banks would need more than $7.2 billion in additional capital for derivatives clearing services.

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  • ClearDox named FIA's 2023 Innovator of the Year

    FIA announced today that ClearDox has been named the FIA Innovator of the Year 2023. In addition, CodeComplete AI was named the runner-up, and Cumulus9 won the People’s Choice Award. 

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  • FIA issues recommendations for strengthening cyber resilience

    FIA today released a report that contains lessons learned from a recent cyber incident and sets out six recommendations for improving the derivatives industry's ability to withstand future attacks.

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