The total amount of customer funds in futures accounts at US FCMs was recorded at $312.1 billion in the month of September.
CONTINUE READINGAt the FIA Futures & Options Expo on 4 November, a group of industry experts discussed the growing interest in event markets, which offer binary options based on the outcomes of sporting events, the release of economic indicators, and even pop culture. These markets hold an especially strong appeal for a large and growing number of individual investors who have plunged into trading stocks, options and futures over the last several years.
CONTINUE READINGAt FIA Expo, market participants agree the time has come to discuss industry-led standards
CONTINUE READINGFIA announced the results of its 2021 pitch competition for fintech startups.
CONTINUE READINGGood morning and welcome to FIA Expo. It’s been two years since we last met here in Chicago, and I can’t tell you how excited I am to be back. Before Covid, my annual calendar revolved around FIA conferences.
CONTINUE READINGBroadway and its technology solutions make it possible for derivatives market participants to create, combine, and extend large-scale, high-performance intelligent trading systems.
CONTINUE READINGRostin Behnam, currently the acting chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, testified before the US Senate Agriculture Committee on 27 October in a hearing that is part of his nomination to become permanent chairman of the agency.
CONTINUE READINGRiskfuel uses a type of deep neural network called a variational autoencoder to learn the space of all possible volatility surfaces for a particular asset class. Once trained, a variational autoencoder provides a fast, robust, and interpretable method that can complete volatility surfaces from partial information in real time.
CONTINUE READINGIn this webinar, we discussed innovative platforms and products that challenge current regulatory regimes and that may or may not be subject to regulatory requirements based on the offering facts and circumstances. For example, we discussed prediction market, NFTs, DeFi, and A.I./automation/roboadvisors.
CONTINUE READINGThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Market Participants Division (MPD) (formerly the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight) published guidance regarding the deposit of virtual (crypto) currencies by customers and holding of these currencies by futures commission merchants (FCMs) to margin customer transactions in crypto currency futures.
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