FIA Comments on FINRA Suitability, Know-Your-Customer Proposals

          The Futures Industry Association opposed suitability and know-your-customer rules proposed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, warning the securities industry regulator that application o ...

FIA Urges Congress to Reject Transaction Tax

            The FIA sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives on June 25, 2009 expressing strong opposition to a proposed tax on futures transactions. In the letter, which was jointly signed ...

FIA Asks House Leadership to Strike Derivatives Provisions from Climate Change Bill

       The FIA has joined with several other trade associations opposing derivatives-related provisions in the climate change bill pending in the U.S. House of Representatives. In a joint letter sent to the House Democratic ...

Treasury Futures as a Risk Management Tool Webinar

The U.S. Treasury Department has significantly increased the size and frequency of debt auctions as a result of the unprecedented increase in U.S. government debt. Join us for a discussion of the effects of this supply increase on the landscape of the Tr ...

FIA Comments on Obama Regulatory Reform Plan

Washington, D.C.—June 17, 2009—John Damgard, the president of the Futures Industry Association, today issued the following statement in response to the release by the Obama administration of a white paper outlining a number of reforms to the U.S. financi ...