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Industry Guidance

Access guidance and best practices for members, their customers and market participants on operational and technological issues as well as law, regulatory and compliance issues.

Regulatory Guidance

  • ETD Volume - February 2026

    Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives reached 12.05 billion contracts in February. This decreased 10.3% from January 2026 but increased 51% from February 2025. CONTINUE READING

  • FIA and energy associations urge EU leaders to avoid a gas price cap

    FIA and a broad coalition of trade associations representing the entire energy value chain have signed a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa setting out shared concerns regarding considerations to introduce a natural gas price cap in response to current geopolitical tensions. CONTINUE READING

  • FIA responds to OCC's clearing fund allocation proposal

    FIA supports OCC’s stress‑aligned clearing fund allocation, noting improved fairness and risk sensitivity, while encouraging smoothing measures to avoid volatility and monitoring potential metric overlaps. CONTINUE READING

  • Beyond the Limit – Is Anything New in Position Limits?

    FIA’s US position limits leads will revisit the CFTC’s federal position limits regime nearly five years after the final rule went into effect, joined by experts from CME, ICE and the CFTC. Refresh on the limits for futures and swaps, exemptions and aggregation and learn what the industry is still focused on for implementation. CONTINUE READING

  • January 2026 stats on customer funds held at US FCMs

    The total amount of customer funds in futures accounts at US FCMs reached a record $417.4 billion in January, up 4.9% from the previous month and up 20.4% over the last 12 months. The number of FCMs holding customer funds in futures accounts was recorded at 51 in December, up from 49 a year ago and the same as five years ago. CONTINUE READING

  • Boca 2026 Opening Remarks: The winning playbook for our markets

    Opening remarks of Walt Lukken, President and CEO of FIA, at the 2026 FIA Global Cleared Markets Conference in Boca Raton, Florida. As prepared for delivery. CONTINUE READING
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Operational and Technology Guidance

  • ETD Volume - February 2026

    Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives reached 12.05 billion contracts in February. This decreased 10.3% from January 2026 but increased 51% from February 2025. CONTINUE READING

  • FIA and energy associations urge EU leaders to avoid a gas price cap

    FIA and a broad coalition of trade associations representing the entire energy value chain have signed a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa setting out shared concerns regarding considerations to introduce a natural gas price cap in response to current geopolitical tensions. CONTINUE READING

  • FIA responds to OCC's clearing fund allocation proposal

    FIA supports OCC’s stress‑aligned clearing fund allocation, noting improved fairness and risk sensitivity, while encouraging smoothing measures to avoid volatility and monitoring potential metric overlaps. CONTINUE READING

  • Beyond the Limit – Is Anything New in Position Limits?

    FIA’s US position limits leads will revisit the CFTC’s federal position limits regime nearly five years after the final rule went into effect, joined by experts from CME, ICE and the CFTC. Refresh on the limits for futures and swaps, exemptions and aggregation and learn what the industry is still focused on for implementation. CONTINUE READING

  • January 2026 stats on customer funds held at US FCMs

    The total amount of customer funds in futures accounts at US FCMs reached a record $417.4 billion in January, up 4.9% from the previous month and up 20.4% over the last 12 months. The number of FCMs holding customer funds in futures accounts was recorded at 51 in December, up from 49 a year ago and the same as five years ago. CONTINUE READING

  • EMIR 3.0 – Implementing the Active Account Requirement

    On 6 February 2026, the regulatory technical standards specifying the operational conditions, the representativeness obligation and the reporting requirements related to the active account requirement (AAR) were published in Official Journal of the EU, providing the necessary legal certainty for compliance by in-scope firms. CONTINUE READING
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