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READ MOREMarch 2025 issue of MarketVoice magazine
The 2025 issue of FIA's MarketVoice magazine has just been published. The publication incudes exchange leader interviews, analyses of shifting regulatory landscapes, the latest on 24/7 futures markets, a look at tokenisation moving from pilot programmes to prevalent practice, analyses of shifting regulatory landscapes, and much more!
Derivatives in growth markets will continue to thrive, exchange leaders say
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Viewpoint – Cleaning our regulatory closet
15+ years have led to a burdensome regulatory environment, some certainly justified but some excessive and overly prescriptive
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Viewpoint - Cleaning our Regulatory Closet
We have come to the end of a regulatory super cycle that began with the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, and it's time to "spring clean" our regulatory closet. Over the last 15 years, governments have placed layers and layers of regulation on financial firms, some certainly justified but some excessive and overly prescriptive. The compliance costs of these regulations have a real impact on our economic growth and productivity.
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MarketVoice Podcast - Adena Friedman, Chair and CEO of Nasdaq
At FIA Boca in March, Walt Lukken sat down with Nasdaq Chair and CEO Adena Friedman to discuss what she's hearing from customers and business leaders on the outlook for the US economy, Nasdaq's plan to move to 24/7 trading in 2026, AI and more.
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Predicting the future of prediction markets
While prediction markets have existed for many years, they exploded in popularity in 2024 thanks to the introduction of contracts that allowed people to bet on elections. That success demonstrated that these contracts could become a new asset class for both retail and institutional investors.
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Carbon trading gains momentum in Southeast Asia
Carbon trading is gaining momentum in Southeast Asia. New spot market exchanges for buying and selling carbon offsets have opened their doors in recent years in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. Although the volume of transactions is still small, the direction of this nascent market is clear.
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People News - April 2025
Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry
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Derivatives in growth markets will continue to thrive, exchange leaders say
Over the past five years, India and Brazil have emerged as two of the fastest-growing derivatives markets in the world, while the Middle East ranked as an important new area of growth in a recent FIA derivatives survey. According to exchange leaders from these regions, growth will continue, buoyed by a rising number of foreign investors and retail traders participating in the markets.
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