NFA Registration Update Effective June 1, 2014, NFA imposed a $1,000.00 late disclosure filing fee for members who fail to disclose or updateregistration records involving prior and/or current disciplinary matters.…
I’ve met many traders, brokers, and introducing brokers having covered the derivatives arena for 30 years. Some have been memorable, some not. Typically why they are memorable is for a…
It probably won’t surprise many to hear that we are living and benefiting from an era of convergence --from network access to data, to digitization, to cloud computing. Convergence has…
On Friday, June 6 the CME Group notified us about a new "netting" policy with regard to market data fees which will apply to IBs. The NIBA has been communicating…
The latest issue of the IMF’s Global Financial Stability report (GSFR, March 2014) provides a comprehensive analysis of the “too important to fail” (TITF) problem. http://www.imf.org/External/Pubs/FT/GFSR/2014/01/index.htm The TITF problem…
This June, DePaul University's Arditti Center for Risk Management is hosting a two-day executive risk leadership program led by Dr. Mark Frigo, Director of the Center for Strategy, Execution and…
Traditionally, counterparties executing swaps transactions in the unregulated Over-The-Counter (“OTC”) marketplace maintained entire teams of staff devoted to the credit or delivery risk of a counter-party. Inclusive in this regime…
Firm Name: R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO) Founded: 1914 – Celebrating firm’s Centennial this year Number of Brokers: Approximately 400 IBs in the RJO network – the largest IB network in…
Trading is difficult. If it was easy, everyone would do it. To excel at trading is even that much harder. Successfully competing against some of societies’ smartest and most ambitious…
The NIBA is now offering a premium service for its members and will be acting as a liaison between the association’s membership and the NFA. Do you have something…
