News releases

23rd April 2020 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has today published its first Spotlight Review, looking at emerging themes and challenges in algorithmic trading and machine learning. This Spotlight Review highlights important emerging issues … … read more.

25 February 2020 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has today issued its 2019 Annual Report setting out the progress made to enhance standards of behaviour in the wholesale fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) markets and its prioriti … … read more.

11 February 2020: The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB), a standard setting body for the global wholesale fixed income, currencies and commodities (FICC) markets, today announces the appointment of Chris Rich as General Counsel. Chris will join FMSB … … read more.

2 December 2019: The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) today issued a Transparency Draft of a new Statement of Good Practice for Participation in Sovereign and Supranational Auctions (‘SSAs’) in Fixed Income Markets. A common way for government or su … … read more.

14 October 2019: The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has today published the final version of a Statement of Good Practice on the issue of Conflicts of Interest. This Statement of Good Practice aims to provide practical, working level guidance and … … read more.

3 October 2019 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) has today published the final version of a Statement of Good Practice on the issue of Information & Confidentiality. This Statement of Good Practice seeks to bring clarity to the complex is … … read more.

25 July 2019 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today announces the appointment of Martin Pluves as its new Chief Executive Officer. Martin joins FMSB from LCH Group, where he was Chief Executive of LCH Ltd. He has spent a decade at LCH in a v … … read more.

London, 20 June 2019 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today publishes a Transparency Draft of a new Statement of Good Practice on Conflicts of Interest. The primary aim of this Statement of Good Practice is to provide guidance for FICC marke … … read more.

London, 18 March 2019 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) announces that it has appointed Edward Ocampo and Michael Cole-Fontayn as new non-executive directors. Edward Ocampo is an Advisory Director at Quantile Technologies, which provides portfo … … read more.

London, 18 March 2019 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has today issued its 2018 Annual Report setting out the progress made to enhance standards of behaviour in the wholesale Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (“FICC”) markets. FMSB is … … read more.

London, 28 January 2019 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) has today published the final version of its Standard on Secondary Market Trading Error Compensation under its remit to improve conduct and raise standards in the wholesale Fixed Incom … … read more.

London, 15 January 2019 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) has today published the final version of its Statement of Good Practice on Suspicious Transaction and Order Reporting under its remit to improve conduct and raise standards in the whol … … read more.