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When it comes to addressing the legal, compliance and risk issues facing commodity and futures markets, it doesn’t get any better than FIA Law & Compliance. For over 40 years, top practitioners, lawyers and regulators have convened at L&C.   As the industry has grown, so too has the conference and 2019 was no exception. Here […]

The definitions that govern disruptive trading practices are constantly evolving and one area that has garnered an increasing amount of market surveillance interest in the last several years concerns activities that occur immediately before and during the market open. As an example of this focus, the CME Group has issued a new Market Regulation Advisory

FIA Boca is one of our favorite events of the year and the 2019 edition didn’t disappoint. In addition to high quality content that illuminates the most important issues facing the derivatives trading industry the conference also proved to be fertile ground for connecting with long-time industry colleagues as well as generating new business ideas.

Trends in trade surveillance and regulation   In the first two installments in this blog series, we looked at the regulatory actions from the CFTC in fiscal year 2018 and one of the central messages that the agency is trying to deliver. In the first case, we saw that the size and complexity of enforcement

Trends in Trade Surveillance and Regulation   In the first installment of this blog series we took a look at the details surrounding the CFTC’s enforcement activities in the 2018 fiscal year as laid out in a speech from the agency’s Enforcement Director, James McDonald. McDonald focused on the agency’s four priorities – preserving market

CHICAGO, Feb. 5, 2019 – Sterling Trading Tech (STT), an innovative trading technology leader in the RaaS (Risk as a Service) space, and Eventus Systems, a leading global trade surveillance and market risk platform provider, announced today that Eventus has integrated the Sterling Cloud-Based Analytics Engine (SRE) into its Validus platform to benefit mutual customers.

Trends in Trade Surveillance and Regulation   2018 was a record-breaking year for the CFTC and this point was brought home forcefully in a recent speech from Enforcement Director James McDonald. Speaking to the NYU School of Law, McDonald delivered a clear and forceful recounting of the enforcement actions that the agency undertook during the

The cryptocurrency market is developing in real-time, right before our very eyes. Borne from the world of technology rather than the realm of finance, cryptocurrency markets understandably lack most of the features and functions that are taken for granted in traditional financial markets. Many of these shortcomings have been examined – and often exaggerated –

FIA held their 14th annual Asia Derivatives Conference in Singapore from November 27 – 30 and the robust crowds, Brexit questions, and positive views regarding Chinese futures markets painted a rosy picture for industry growth in the region. Compared to the FOW Derivatives World Asia event in April (you can read our recap of that