On 11 March 2021, FIA and 14 trade associations representing a wide range of stakeholders in the European and global financial markets wrote to the European Commission and ESMA raising concerns about the implementation of the mandatory buy-in requirement under the EU’s CSDR Settlement Discipline Regime.
CONTINUE READINGThe FIA European Principal Traders Association (FIA EPTA) and the FIA Principal Traders Group (FIA PTG) appreciate the opportunity to respond to HM’s Treasury Call for Evidence on the UK’s Overseas Framework. FIA EPTA and FIA PTG are supportive of HM Treasury’s current overseas framework and the call to provide industry insight on how to continue and create flexible approaches for non-UK firms to access various UK markets and exchanges.
CONTINUE READINGOn March 10, FIA sent letters to Texas officials, including Governor Greg Abbott, raising concerns about a recommendation made by a market monitor of the state’s utility commission for the grid operator to retroactively alter real-time wholesale electricity pricing for two days in February 2021 that experienced unusually high prices due to the Winter Storm Uri.
CONTINUE READINGBrooksley Born served as chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 1996 to 1999.
CONTINUE READINGJeffrey Geldermann was co-founder of GMI Software, a back-office technology provider providing clearing and accounting applications for exchange-traded derivatives, futures, options, energy, and cleared OTC products including repos, swaps and equities.
CONTINUE READINGCharles Li retired from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing at the start of 2021 after serving as chief executive for more than 10 years.
CONTINUE READINGBryan Durkin is a former president of CME group and currently serves on its board of directors.
CONTINUE READINGDouglas Harris, a long-standing and widely respected member of the derivatives industry, is a senior adviser at Promontory Financial Group, where he advises banks, swap dealers, futures commission merchants, derivatives clearing organizations and other financial institutions on regulatory and compliance issues.
CONTINUE READINGJames Newsome, a founding partner of Delta Strategy Group, was previously a commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
CONTINUE READINGGay Huey Evans is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the London Metal Exchange and a member of Her Majesty’s Treasury Board in the United Kingdom.
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