Commodities archive
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Joint trade association letter to ESMA on carbon benchmarks
FIA, jointly with ISDA, AFME, EFET and Europex, wrote to ESMA to express our concerns in relation to the requirement for benchmark administrators to comply with additional obligations set out in Regulation (EU) 2019/2089 (‘Low Carbon Benchmarks Regulation’) by 30 April 2020.
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Risk Managing the Clean Energy Transition
How derivatives markets are supporting the move to a low carbon world
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Securities Financing Transaction Regulation – industry readiness
On 20 February, FIA, jointly with GFMA, CMC Europe, EFET and LBMA sent a letter to the FCA to notify the regulator that the commodity industry will require additional time to implement new reporting requirements under SFTR, which commence from April this year.
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FIA files response with ESMA on the review of MiFID II Position Limits
On 8 January 2020, FIA and ISDA responded jointly to ESMA’s consultation “MiFID II review report on position limits and position management and draft technical advice on weekly position reports”.
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FIA’s commodities members support CFTC move to delay swaps margin requirements
FIA’s U.S. Commodities members recently filed a response to the CFTC proposal relating to the implementation schedule for the CFTC’s uncleared margin rules.
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Asian commodity markets present uncertainty but opportunity in 2020
As commodity market participants look ahead to 2020, perhaps the only thing they can be sure of is uncertainty. That was the theme at a panel discussion Dec. 4 at FIA's Asia 2019 conference in Singapore, which touched on trade tensions between the U.S. and China, shifting demand for products and the broader opening of Chinese financial and derivatives markets to the rest of the world.
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FIA’s Commodities Members urge CFTC to take deliberate approach to improving swaps reporting rules
FIA’s commodities members wrote in support of the CFTC’s efforts to improve its swap data reporting rules and stressed the importance of the Commission and public having access to accurate and reliable data.
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EMIR 2.1: new obligations for financial and non-financial counterparties
Please join FIA for a webinar on EMIR 2.1 and the impact on FCs and NFCs.
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Opening Remarks of FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken at the FIA Commodities Symposium
FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken today made the following opening remarks at the FIA Commodities Symposium in Houston, Texas.
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The EV disruption
How the rise of electric vehicles will create pitfalls and opportunities for the derivatives industry.
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