FIA Boca International Conference

FIA Boca-V: Closing Ceremony Honors Outstanding Figures and Remembers the Lost

by Matt Raebel | Mar 18, 2021

FIA Boca-V 2021 wrapped up with FIA CEO Walt Lukken thanking attendees and welcoming 2021’s inductees into the Futures Industry Hall of Fame.

FIA Boca-V: Exchange Leaders, Market Makers Weigh In On Sustainability

by Suzanne Cosgrove | Mar 18, 2021

It’s hard to argue against the merits of sustainability, but making it into investable products is a work in progress among members of the financial community.

FIA BOCA-V: Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi Bookends Boca with Inspiring Personal Story

by Owen Rehling | Mar 18, 2021

The FIA Boca-V conference saw a slight deviation in form with its final keynote speaker on the topic of sustainability. Instead of an extended Q&A or a roundtable discussion among many panelists seen in sessions from previous days, FIA CEO Walt Lukken gave the floor to renowned astrophysicist and former space science education lead at NASA, Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi, to tell his life story.

FIA Boca-V: An Upbeat Panel Says Good-Bye to ‘Innovation Theater’

by Thom Thompson | Mar 17, 2021

A practically ebullient panel provided enormously incisive and positive remarks during the “Technology – Changing How Markets Operate” panel at FIA Boca-V on Wednesday.

FIA Boca-V: Google’s Financial Services VP a ‘Kid in the Candy Store’

by Suzanne Cosgrove | Mar 17, 2021

Financial institutions are great at collecting data, but they actually utilize less than 1 percent of what they have in-house, said Google executive Derek White. That’s a strong use case for enlisting cloud technology’s help clean and connect that data to the players in a market’s ecosystem.

FIA Boca-V: Eurex To List Futures Tied to German Bitcoin ETN

by Thom Thompson | Mar 17, 2021

Eurex CEO Michael Peters on Wednesday told this year’s FIA Boca-V attendees that Eurex will launch a futures contract on a bitcoin ETN, an instrument that trades on Deutsche Boerse’s Xetra platform. Peters nodded to the example of other Eurex derivatives based on ETNs, mentioning specifically its gold ETN futures, but offering no launch date or other details on the bitcoin product.

FIA Boca-V: Global Exchange Leaders on Markets: Access and Regulatory Issues

by John Lothian | Mar 16, 2021

The global leaders panel of FIA Boca-V has been broken into three parts this week: trends, access and regulatory issues and geopolitics. The access and regulatory issues discussed on Tuesday focused on growth opportunities and questions about retail traders using social media sites like Reddit to compete against institutions.

FIA Boca-V: Exchange Leaders Share Views On Crucial Trends Facing the Markets in 2021

by Matt Raebel | Mar 16, 2021

“Global Exchange Leaders on Markets: Trends” was a session during FIA Boca-V that was stacked with top-level executives from some of the biggest exchanges in the industry. Appropriately, it was one of the first sessions that took place on Day One of the virtual conference — it’s always good to start these things off with a bang.

FIA Boca-V: EU Commissioner McGuinness Takes Stern View Post-Brexit

by Suzanne Cosgrove | Mar 16, 2021

If there still are any doubters as to the extent of Brexit’s impact on London’s financial markets, Mairead McGuinness, European commissioner for financial services, set them straight on Tuesday. In a keynote address to the FIA’s Boca conference, she called the U.K.’s then-popular 2016 decision to leave the E.U. “a major fragmenting event” with consequences.

FIA Boca-V: Does Surviving Brexit and a Pandemic Just Mean You Get to Trade 24/7?

by Thom Thompson | Mar 16, 2021

After the now-inevitable discussions of the financial industry’s successful taming of the threats presented by first the pandemic and then Brexit, the hour-long session ”The Future of Markets” provided a solid 25 minutes of discussion about a couple of topics likely to affect markets as time goes on: ESG and 24/7 trading.

Futures Industry Association Cancels Prestigious Boca International Conference Due to an Abundance of Caution Because of Global Coronavirus Outbreak

by John Lothian | Mar 3, 2020

The Futures Industry Association has cancelled its International Conference in Boca Raton, Florida scheduled to start next week out of “an abundance of caution.”