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Members of the futures industry to help raise funds for Evelina Hospital
Futures industry participants will take part in the Guy’s Urban Challenge this month to raise money for children’s hospital
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Viewpoint - Why regulators and entrepreneurs must work together
I don't want to sound like a cranky old man on a porch, but flabbidy-flew, the world is changing fast. As the chart in this column shows, the pace of technological adoption is accelerating rapidly, and we now have access to inventions that previous generations could only dream about.
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How energy markets are evolving
FIA's MarketVoice recently spoke with Gordon Bennett, ICE's managing director of utility markets about key changes in global energy markets. Bennett pointed to the liberalization of natural gas markets, and increasing globalisation that has influenced recent product launches at the exchange. He also discussed the broader shift towards clean energy, the role natural gas plays in that transition, and how ICE is supporting the evolution of modern energy markets.
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A time of change for FIA in Brussels
This summer marked the one-year anniversary of the opening of FIA's Brussels office. With long-established offices in Washington D.C., Singapore and London, the Brussels office continues FIA's hands-on approach to shaping regulatory affairs across jurisdictions and ensuring members' voices are heard in the many stages of policy and regulation formation.
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Forging a new path in commodities
Since the first round of the trade war between the U.S. and China in 2018, agricultural markets worldwide have been operating in an environment of extraordinary uncertainty. U.S. farmers have long counted on China as their top export market, but the see-saw nature of the trade negotiations — and China's decision to shift its purchases to other parts of the world — have radically disrupted traditional trade flows.
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The new shape of EU politics - What new faces and new priorities in Brussels mean
The start of a new five-year political cycle has just begun in the European Union, and both EU citizens and their leaders believe the current term will have a decisive impact on the future direction of the European project. Citizens went to the polls to elect a new European Parliament in May, followed by the allocation of top positions in the other major European institutions in early July.
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Dombrovskis set to continue as European commissioner for financial services
Valdis Dombrovskis is set to retain his role as the European commissioner for financial services, after president-elect Ursula von der Leyen unveiled her proposed line-up of commissioners at a press conference in Brussels on 10 September.
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Aviva exec keeps a watchful eye on clearing issues
Aviva Investors, one of the largest asset managers in the U.K., is an active user of derivatives as a component in the investment solutions that it offers to insurance companies, pension funds and other institutional investors. In this interview, the latest in a series of buyside profiles in MarketVoice, Barry Hadingham, the company's head of derivatives and counterparty risk, talks about some of the current challenges Aviva Investors is facing in both the cleared and uncleared derivatives markets and explains why his firm may opt to move its clearing to the U.S. after Brexit.
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Swiss Life joins Eurex Clearing as direct member
With the recent addition of three customers and two major European banks to its ISA Direct program this summer, Eurex Clearing has made important progress in standing up the direct membership model it first introduced in 2016.
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VoLo Foundation uses data to fight climate change
When David S. Vogel founded Voloridge Investment Management in 2009, he was focused on using his expertise in predictive modeling to identify winning investment strategies. The fund's strategy applied sophisticated mathematical techniques to identify patterns in market data to try to predict which way stocks and futures would move next. His fund has been remarkably successful, attracting several billion dollars in assets under management. But David’s passion for numbers extends far beyond finance and markets.
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