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Affiliates Affiliates Explore our range of affiliate organizations from advocacy groups focused on principal traders to educational institutes that build an understanding of the importance of financial markets. Get Involved Build your connection with FIA and the cleared derivatives industry by becoming a member, attending an event, or joining a committee or working group. Search Search Quick Links About Us Key Issues Latest News EPTA Membership Resources FIA European Principal Traders Association FIA European Principal Traders Association (FIA EPTA) represents Europe’s leading Principal Trading Firms. Our 28 members are independent market makers and providers of liquidity and risk transfer for exchanges and end-investors across Europe. We work constructively with policymakers, regulators and other market stakeholders to ensure efficient, resilient, high-quality financial markets. Learn more about EPTA Recent Updates US Equity Market Structure: An Investor Perspective BlackRock discusses several market structure issues affecting U.S. equity markets and provides several recommendations to further improve market quality and stability. CONTINUE READING Response by the FIA European Principal Traders Association to the EBA Consultation Paper on draft RTS on revised identified staff for remuneration purposes Principal Trading Firms are relatively small, non-complex firms with flat organization structures. Importantly, our members trade for own account and risk only, and do not hold or manage client assets or money or take deposits. CONTINUE READING FIA EPTA response to the LSE consultation on market structure and trading hours FIA EPTA members consider that, generally speaking, the longer hours in Europe do not seem to provide a benefit to market liquidity and observe that the shorter hours in, for example, the U.S. main trading session do not hamper market liquidity. CONTINUE READING FIA EPTA members elect new executive committee FIA EPTA’s members have elected a new Executive Committee as the governing body of the industry organisation, supporting its chairman, Mark Spanbroek, and Secretary General, Piebe Teeboom. CONTINUE READING FIA EPTA response to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s Discussion Paper on the trading obligation for derivatives under MiFIR FIA EPTA members have consistently supported the leading objective of the 2009 G20 Pittsburgh commitments and the subsequent EU derivatives markets reforms, which aim to ensure that trading in standardised OTC derivatives takes place on exchanges or electronic trading platforms where possible. CONTINUE READING FIA EPTA’s response to the review of Capital Requirements Regulation We believe the current blanket application of CRR to banks and investment firms, without distinguishing between firms by activity or size, has a disproportionate impact on proprietary trading firms that serve as Europe’s market makers. CONTINUE READING See More @FIAEPTA Follow Us fiaepta - April 30 Did the short-selling bans in Europe achieve their goal of reducing market #volatility ? Our research found the answ… t.co/fvUJd7w1gr 0 0 SHARE fiaepta - April 29 RT @FIAconnect : May 6 at 2PM BST: @FIAconnect invites members to tune in to a presentation with @Clifford_Chance on the EU CSDR settlement… 0 1 SHARE fiaepta - April 29 World Federation of Exchanges academic research on effectivenes of short sale bans. Conclusion:'bans hamper liquidi… t.co/ZWaEpmz4bV 0 0 SHARE fiaepta - April 23 RT @SamTyfield : Oh goodie. Bed time reading. t.co/MyfH8KZTUN 0 1 SHARE fiaepta - April 22 RT @FIAconnect : Reminder - sign up for today's webinar at 10:30AM ET covering trends in Q1 2020 Futures & Options #Trading with @FIAconnec … 0 1 SHARE fiaepta - April 21 Quality summary on oil futures pricing. "WTI-WTF?" t.co/AN8jUHcaY3 0 0 SHARE fiaepta - April 21 RT @FIAconnect : . @FIAconnect today canceled three upcoming conferences due to on-going health concerns and governmental restrictions caused… 0 3 SHARE fiaepta - April 20 RT @euronext : Check out how the postponement of Annual General Meetings and #dividend policy can impact the pricing of #derivatives ht… 0 4 SHARE fiaepta - April 15 Indeed. All market paticipants orders add liquidity to the markets and they should all be allowed to short. If not… t.co/or9o0T6lgA 1 0 SHARE fiaepta - April 15 Congrats to this anniversary to @Xetra 20 years of collaboration with the exchange and years of liquidity provisi… t.co/vEfoVuts8H 2 0 SHARE fiaepta - April 14 ESMA EXTENDS MIFID II/MIFIR TRANSPARENCY REVIEW REPORT CONSULTATION TO 14 JUNE 2020 @ESMAComms t.co/Ube7hOtfkA 0 1 SHARE fiaepta - April 07 As traders navigate market volatility, study from @Liquidnet finds that continuous lit volumes have jumped in March… t.co/u7JxzxO1E3 1 0 SHARE fiaepta - April 03 #MiFiD2 consultation by Commission extended till May 18. t.co/UOGE9c04sG 0 0 SHARE fiaepta - March 30 RT @TheWFE : WFE CEO Nandini Sukumar: Banning short-selling interferes with price formation, increasing uncertainty. Read full statement her… 0 2 SHARE fiaepta - March 30 RT @TheWFE : The WFE has issued a statement criticising recent bans on short-selling as damaging to markets and failing to achieve their des… 0 3 SHARE fiaepta - March 27 Pro active approach by the FED to early adoption of SA-CCR. This is important relief for all. Will Europeans regula… t.co/CDZTEByp3q 0 0 SHARE fiaepta - March 25 Some folks have bad humor. This message is ...