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FIA works closely with member firms to develop industry-standard agreements and other documentation that all market participants can use to support their trading and clearing functions as well as ensure regulatory compliance in different jurisdictions.

US Documentation Library

FIA’s US Documentation Library contains a wide range of guidance documents and template agreements and disclosures. These include standard give-up agreements, client clearing and execution agreements, risk disclosure statements and a number of exchange-specific agreements.

FIA CCP Risk Review

FIA’s CCP Risk Review™ summarizes the rules and procedures of CCPs worldwide. Written in practical, comparative terms and incorporating key implications of applicable law where relevant, the FIA CCP Risk Review assists market participants and regulators in scrutinizing and understanding the risks relating to CCPs, for both clearing members and clients.

European Documentation Library

FIA’s European Documentation Library puts valuable legal opinions and client terms of business at your fingertips. This documentation helps you meet regulatory requirements and/or common commercial objectives such as facilitating commercial dealings or addressing areas of capital or risk.

Documentation News

  • FIA New Member Profile – Fieldfisher

    Fieldfisher is a European law firm with practices in technology, financial services, energy and natural resources and life sciences. Its European network is supported by offices in the US and China and international partner firms, enabling it to advise clients around the world across time zones and disciplines.

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  • Derivatives industry continues pressing for greater efficiency in trading 

    Despite major gains in the efficiency of futures markets over the last 20 years, a panel of industry leaders say fragmented regulation stands in the way of further efficiency.  

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  • FIA Operations Division comment on DMIST Consultation Paper on 30/30/30 Standard

    We are writing to comment and highlight the proposed 30/30/30 standard. As a board, we are heavily in favor of this standard. This will help reduce operational risk by ensuring trades clear in the proper account in a timely fashion. To be more specific, this will allow for a more real-time account valuation, position monitoring, margining, as well as decrease the risk related to unallocated expiring transactions. As an industry, all participants stand to benefit from this proposed standard. That being said, we would also like to highlight some of the challenges in meeting this goal.

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  • FIA Operations Division to form Post-Trade Tech Committee

    As operations and clearing becomes more automated, operations professionals are increasingly impacted by technology issues. The FIA Operations Americas Division is forming a Post-Trade Technology Committee to consider topics such as tokenization, how artificial intelligence can be used in futures operations, and solving inefficiencies in the post-trade process. The new committee also will interface with CCPs on technology updates to existing systems as well as new initiatives.

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  • FIA Operations Division hosts panel on 24/7 Clearing

    The FIA Operations Americas Division held a workshop in May to consider the practical implications of clearing 24-hours-per-day/7-days-a-week in the current ecosystem.

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  • FIA Operations Division comment on DMIST Consultation Paper on Average Pricing Standard

    The FIA Operations Americas Division provided comments on the DMIST Consultation Paper: Standard Regarding Average Pricing. The Division is fully supportive of achieving consistency across clearinghouses and responded to the questions raised in the consultation paper as well as made recommendations regarding specific functions that could be standardized.

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