Global trading of futures and options surged in the first quarter as markets responded to the coronavirus pandemic.
CONTINUE READINGFIA canceled three upcoming conferences due to on-going health concerns and governmental restrictions caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
CONTINUE READINGFIA today released data for global futures and options trading in the first quarter of 2020 that shows the total number of contracts traded on derivatives exchanges worldwide rose to 11.41 billion, an all-time quarterly record and an increase of 43.2% over the first quarter of 2019.
CONTINUE READINGWorldwide volume of exchange-traded derivatives was 4.54 billion contracts in the month of March, up 25.4% from the previous month and up 58.8% from March 2019.
CONTINUE READINGTrading volume on SEFs reached $1.03 trillion in average notional value per day during March 2020, the second highest level ever recorded. Record trading occurred in every category except in the forward rate agreement sector.
CONTINUE READINGComparing U.S. and Non-U.S. FCMs
CONTINUE READINGFIA, jointly with ISDA, AFME, EFET and Europex, wrote to ESMA to express our concerns in relation to the requirement for benchmark administrators to comply with additional obligations set out in Regulation (EU) 2019/2089 (‘Low Carbon Benchmarks Regulation’) by 30 April 2020.
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CONTINUE READINGFIA and its affiliated organizations, FIA PTG and FIA EPTA, issued a following statement in response to calls for short selling bans by global policymakers.
CONTINUE READINGFIA EPTA contacted the Executive Board of BaFin to register our concern regarding the safeguarding of market liquidity and orderly price formation on German and European exchanges.
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