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ETD Volume - August 2022
Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives reached 7.30 billion contracts in the month of August, the highest monthly total ever recorded. The August total was up 11.2% from July 2022 and up 38.1% from August 2021.
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A Futures Industry Perspective - How EU Policymakers Should Respond to the Energy Crisis
With Europe facing an extraordinary shortage of energy triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, prices for natural gas and electricity have reached record highs. FIA provides a high-level overview of the liquidity issues emerging in the futures markets and our perspective on some of the measures now under consideration to ease the impact on utilities and other firms facing extraordinarily large margin calls.
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FIA EPTA response to the FCA’s CP22/12 on Improving Equity Secondary Markets
FIA EPTA is appreciative to the FCA for taking the lead in designing an improved post-trade transparency regime which should benefit the efficiency and competitiveness of UK capital markets. FIA EPTA members found broad support for the FCA’s proposals and found them to be mostly welcome enhancements to the current approach to post-trade transparency.
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Resources and notices related to Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral
FIA FIA created this page for members as a resource for information related to market closures caused by the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s State Funeral on Monday 19 September.
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FIA EPTA Response to IOSCOs Decentralised Finance (DeFi) paper
In the paper, IOSCO lays out a general overview of the DeFi space, and some of the challenges and risks regulators see. FIA EPTA and its members are becoming part of the DeFi space and are pleased to see the growing interest from policymakers and regulators. One of the key challenges that the IOSCO paper tried to tackle is defining what DeFi is, this is also an issue faced by market participants as there is no general view on DeFi yet.
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FIA responds to ESMA consultation on cash penalty process for cleared transactions
FIA supports ESMA’s proposals to remove the special process of collection and distribution of penalties by central counterparties for cleared transactions. This will allow for the centralisation of collection and distribution process of cash penalties for both cleared and uncleared transactions upon a single entity (central securities depository), allowing for a more straightforward and consistent approach, fully centred on the settlement step regardless of trading flow.
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FIA statement on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II
FIA joins the U.K. in mourning the loss of Queen Elizabeth II and has begun discussions with market participants in the cleared derivatives industry about the potential of market closures in observance of her passing.
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FIA responds to independent review of LME nickel market disruption
On 2 September, FIA responded to an independent review of the nickel market disruption on the London Metal Exchange. The review is being conducted by Oliver Wyman, a consulting firm, on behalf of LME.
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ETD Volume - July 2022
Worldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives reached 6.57 billion contracts in the month of July, the third highest monthly total ever recorded. The July total was down 6.8% from June 2022’s record but up 33.6% from July 2021.
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FIA PTG Responds to US Treasury Request for Information on Transparency
In a letter filed with the US Department of the Treasury today, the FIA Principal Traders Group (FIA PTG) supported the implementation of real-time public reporting (with appropriate block trade thresholds) for all secondary market cash transactions.
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