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Today the industry-led Post-Trade Task Force publishes its report “Charting the Future of Post-Trade”. The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has agreed to take the Task Force’s work forward through FMSB’s new Post-Trade Committee. Announced in a joint…

15 December 2021, Plato Partnership and FMSB have today announced an agreement to co-operate on Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (“FICC”) academic research via Plato’s Market Structure Academic Research programme (“MI3”). Launched in September 2019, the Plato…

Trading standard seeks to cut risk of gold benchmark volatility 8 December 2021 – Article by Peter Hobson, Reuters

London, 9 November 2021 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB), Bank of England (the Bank) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have today announced signing a tri-party Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The MoU sets out a high-level…

UK markets board publishes Term Sonia standards 28 July 2021 – Article by Luke Jeffs in Global Investor Group

Published term Sonia standards give niche debt transition clarity 28 July 2021 – Article by Mike Turner in Global Capital

2 June 2021 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has today issued its 2020 Annual Report setting out the progress made to enhance standards of behaviour in the wholesale fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) markets…

The Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, made reference to FMSB’s work in a speech on 11 May 2021 at the Alternative Reference Rates Committee’s ‘SOFR Symposium: The Final Year’ about the move away from…