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  • People News: September/October 2019

    Appointments, promotions and other people news in the derivatives industry

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  • Derivatives regulation under the spotlight at FIA Frankfurt Forum

    FIA welcomed more than 100 attendees from across the derivatives industry to its forum in Frankfurt on 24 September, where the impact of post-crisis reforms, new rules in Europe and international oversight of cross-border trading and clearing came under the spotlight.

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  • CFTC's DSIO plans “thematic reviews” of large swap dealers and asset managers

    After the swearing in of a new chairman in July, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is staffed up and getting down to business. And based on recent remarks from Joshua Sterling, the agency's new director of the CFTC's Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight, that business will include an increased focus on the oversight of swap dealers and asset managers.

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  • After trading migration, Cboe will pivot to data analytics as next growth initiative

    Data platform push will follow Oct. 7 migration of main options market to more advanced trading platform

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    Bakkt bitcoin futures: The dawn of an asset class

    Sponsored Content: Bakkt Warehouse to facilitate physically delivered bitcoin futures

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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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