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期货和衍生品行业监管动态

对 CFTC 重新授权立法的建议：

• 解决期货佣金商破产事件中所涉“客户财产”定义的法律不确定性问题。

• 扩大中小农场主教育资源的获取。

• 改善 CFTC 的研究和开发能力。

FIA CEO Testifies at House Agriculture Committee Hearing (2024/7/25)

Walt Lukken, President and CEO of FIA, testified today at a US House

Agriculture Committee subcommittee hearing on reauthorizing the Commodities

Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Highlights:

• FIA strongly supports reauthorizing the CFTC.

• Since the last reauthorization of the CFTC in 2008:

 Futures and options markets have grown significantly – total trading

volume on CFTC-regulated exchanges in the US has nearly doubled

from 3.4 billion futures and options contracts in 2008 to 6.6 billion in

2023.

 The markets are safer and more resilient, as demonstrated through the

onset of COVID-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 The markets have continued to become more global and innovative.

FIA encourages Congress to:

• Monitor and encourage the CFTC to enact a strong conflicts of interest rule

to address concerns when exchanges and clearinghouses embed an FCM

within their legal structure.

• Monitor the impact of the Basel III endgame and the Federal Reserve’s

proposal to significantly adjust the capital levels required by global

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