In late December, Basic Books published a book I wrote about the futures industry.
Yet technology could still turn to Chicago's advantage as the global futures industry consolidates.
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The Futures Industry Association notes that trading volume in energy futures and options rose 13% last year.
Lukken spoke to members of the futures industry at a luncheon to discuss the view from Washington.
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He spoke to the Futures Industry Association conference in Boca Raton last week.
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An investigation into what went wrong at PFGBest and how the futures industry should be regulated will doubtless follow.
The futures industry has been able to hold itself up in the past few years as something of a white knight.
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The Futures Industry Association, a collection of futures brokers like banks and investment houses, complained that the new cme Group could have too much power.
Finance is missing some of the hottest technologies around, Mark Palmer told a panel about event triggered trading at the Futures Industry Association in Chicago recently.
This rebranding comes to you courtesy of two dozen firms that are the members of the newly formed Principal Traders Group, a new arm of the Futures Industry Association.
According to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, that city's futures industry employs 151, 000 people, directly or indirectly, and is creating those jobs at a rate 50% faster than the Chicagoan average.
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According to a story from March in the Wall Street Journal, the Obama administration said it has asked Gensler to serve a second term as the head of the government agency that oversees the futures industry.
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Like the banks, MF Global reported to a patchwork of regulators, from CME Group to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, historically a weak regulator held captive by the futures industry in other words, by CME Group ( CME).
To get into the opening reception of the Futures Industry Association (FIA) at the Art Institute of Chicago, attendees had to walk over an anti-bank demonstration police had closed the main entrance to the museum and restricted access to an elevated walkway from Millennium Park across Monroe Drive where hundreds of protesters had gathered.
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Exchange operators and a futures-industry regulator are working on new rules that would restrict what brokerage firms can do with customer money.
Commissioner Sommers has worked in the commodity futures and options industry in a variety of capacities throughout her career.
Mr Arbor has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the industry regulator, to block the proposed exchange, claiming that Cantor, as a brokerage, has a conflict of interest.
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There were high hopes originally for Schapiro, who had plenty of regulatory experience running the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Regulators, whose ranks include the industry trade group the National Futures Association, have still missed the big picture.
The chief regulator of the industry The Commodities Futures Trading Commission ( CFTC) has a 413-page document outlining new consumer protections.
Gary Gensler, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, told the audience at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association meeting that the work was far from over.
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Industry experts are generally upbeat on the immediate futures of recently troubled legacy carriers like Delta, UAL 's United Airlines and AMR 's American Airlines, believing they have seen the worst and that cost-cutting initiatives have industry balance sheets under control.
Industry experts are generally upbeat on the immediate futures of recently troubled legacy carriers like Delta, UAL 's (nasdaq: UAUA - news - people ) United Airlines and AMR 's (nyse: AMR - news - people ) American Airlines, believing they have seen the worst and that cost-cutting initiatives have industry balance sheets under control.
If the protesters had been able to get into the FIA keynote the following day, they might have been surprised to hear Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commonity Futures Trading Commission, saying something similar about the problems the financial services industry had caused through excessive leverage, as I detail below.
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Bart Chilton, a Democratic commissioner of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, said it is a headache for regulators to determine whether industry lobbying is based on a legitimate concern or is simply a delaying tactic.
European stock and derivatives exchanges saw themselves in competition with each other, as did their host cities and countries: finance was deemed a growth industry, and slogans abounded as governments saw a local stock or futures market as a way to create high-paying jobs and ample tax revenues.
The securities industry is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission.
Goldman Sachs seems to view the industry bullishly, reversing its short on U.S. nat gas futures and providing further long-arguments for global nat gas markets.
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He joined Goldman Sachs in 2005 and worked there until his sacking, for building up "inappropriately large proprietary futures positions in a firm trading account", according to a filing with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra).
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However, industry sources believe exposure the ETN was holding to corn, wheat, soybeans and sugar futures was nearing limits that might attract the attention of regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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