FIA today announced the election of three new directors at its annual meeting in Boca Raton, Florida: Susan Gaughan, Société Générale, Nelson Neale, CHS Hedging LLC, and Harris L. Kay, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.
CONTINUE READINGAsiaNext is an institution-only digital asset trading venue established in 2021 that offers listing, trading, clearing, settlement and custody. Headquartered in Singapore, it is a joint venture between Japan’s SBI Digital Asset Holdings and SIX Group in Switzerland.
CONTINUE READINGTölt Strategies is an advisory and consulting firm established in 2023 by Dorothy D. DeWitt, a former Director of the Division of Market Oversight at the CFTC. The firm offers expert and independent advisory services to companies in traditional and emerging sectors.
CONTINUE READINGFounded in 2018 in New York, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm and FINRA-registered broker-dealer offering clearing, custody, execution, and financing for US equities and options and clearing, custody, and financing for fixed-income securities.
CONTINUE READINGMarket watchers expect dramatic changes in the European clearinghouse landscape over the next few years, including more competition for the clearing of interest rate swaps, a big operational migration at Euronext, and consolidation in energy derivatives clearing.
CONTINUE READINGThe search for greater capital and operational efficiency is one of the top areas of focus for the derivatives industry, according to a recent survey of industry professionals conducted by FIA and Coalition Greenwich.
CONTINUE READINGThe 14-page report, Derivatives Market Structure 2024: Focusing on Capital and Workflow Efficiency, provides a unique perspective into the key drivers for the global clearing business. The report is based on findings from research of market participants conducted jointly by FIA and Coalition Greenwich, a provider of strategic benchmarking, analytics and insights to the financial services industry.
CONTINUE READINGOpening remarks of Walt Lukken, President and CEO of FIA, at the International Futures Industry Conference in Boca Raton, FL. As prepared for delivery.
CONTINUE READINGConstant trading is the nature of financial markets, but there have been signs that the current structure may be unable to keep up with the rapidly increasing level of trading volume in these markets. Tokenization could be just the thing to increase trading efficiency and reliability.
CONTINUE READINGIn a letter filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today, the FIA Principal Traders Group (FIA PTG) urged the SEC to disapprove the self-regulatory organizations’ (“SRO”) proposed rule changes to Establish Fees for Industry Members Related to Certain Historical Costs of the National Market System Plan Governing the Consolidated Audit Trail (the “CAT Fee Filings”) incurred by the SROs prior to January 1, 2022.
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