Chairman’s Message | September 2012
Dear Members - The NIBA is committed to providing education to its members about issues and events that impact compliance duties, enhance ability to generate revenue and generally affect business.…
Dear Members - The NIBA is committed to providing education to its members about issues and events that impact compliance duties, enhance ability to generate revenue and generally affect business.…
On September 12, 2012, over 200 IBs, CTAs, FCMs and APs attended the 21st Fall NIBA Conference. Each session taught something about compliance, business or marketing. Every presentation sent members…
September 25, 2012 NFA announces second New York regulatory workshop for entities that currently operate commodity pools whose exemptions expire on December 31, 2012 NFA will present an encore workshop…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently adopted CFTC Regulation 1.71 to implement new section 4d(c) of the Commodity Exchange Act, which requires FCMs and IBs to implement a conflict…
Although it seems like only yesterday the National Introducing Brokers Association (“NIBA”) panel on “Assessing FCM Risk” took place over two weeks ago. If you were part of the standing…
Following the insolvency of PFGBest, CME Group has been accepting applications from farmers, ranchers and agricultural co-operatives to register for benefits under the CME Group Family Farmer & Rancher Protection…
Primary Markets Traded The PRICE Futures Group trades and specializes in each of the domestic and global futures and options markets which include grains, softs, energies, metals, equities, currencies, and…
U.S. corn and soybean yields were dramatically reduced by the drought and heat wave of 2012. Hints of the drought began in mid-May as the coverage of subsoil dryness rapidly…
The MF Global trustee will soon ramp up a process for resolving the status of IB security deposits. Many IBs had such security deposits held in MF Global commodity accounts…
"The information detailed below is taken from an online survey of current NFA registered Introducing Brokers (IBs) conducted in July 2012. The survey contained a series of questions ranging from…