The Futures Industry Association strongly supports the recent efforts of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to bolster price transparency and enhance market surveillance in commodity and energy futures markets.
CONTINUE READINGThe Futures Industry Association, a Washington-based trade group, today released its annual report on global trading volume.
CONTINUE READINGToday the Treasury Department made public a comment letter from the antitrust division of the Justice Department regarding the structure of the U.S. futures markets.
CONTINUE READINGFIA is pleased to announce the induction of Richard Berliand, the chairman of J.P. Morgan’s global futures and options business, into the Futures Hall of Fame on March 14, 2008.
CONTINUE READINGThe FOA has issued guidance on the application of the best execution requirements under the FSA rules implementing MiFID in the UK.
CONTINUE READINGFIA President John Damgard testified at a Sept. 26 hearing of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management on the reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
CONTINUE READINGThe number of futures contracts traded worldwide grew by more than 30% last year, setting yet another record along the way.
CONTINUE READINGMyron Scholes helped create the intellectual foundation for the modern derivatives markets.
CONTINUE READINGGeorge Haase was president of the New York Clearing Corporation, a position he hadheld since 1993.
CONTINUE READINGNo one has done more to institutionalize the managed futures business than Stanley Fink, the guiding force behind the growth of Man Group into one of the world’s largest alternative investment firms.
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