News releases

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.

London, 27 July 2018 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today publishes its Behavioural Cluster Analysis (“BCA”) study. This is a unique piece of research that has reviewed the behavioural patterns in 390 cases of misconduct in financial marke … … read more.

London, 11 July 2018 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today publishes a Transparency Draft of a new Statement of Good Practice on Algorithmic Trading in FICC Markets. The use of computer algorithms to facilitate trading in FICC markets has i … … read more.

London, 3 July 2018 – The FICC Markets Standard Board (FMSB) has today issued its Standard on Risk Management Transactions for New Issuance. The Standard sets out several core principles relevant to risk management transactions connected with new issue … … read more.

London, 1 June 2018 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today publishes a Transparency Draft of a new Statement of Good Practice on Information and Confidentiality for fixed income and commodities markets. The question of what information may b … … read more.

London, 4 May 2018 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today publishes a Transparency Draft of a new Statement of Good Practice on Suspicious Transaction and Order Reporting. This Statement of Good Practice covers the identification of suspicio … … read more.

London, 20 March 2018 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today publishes its Transparency Draft Standard on Secondary Market Trading Error Compensation. The Standard deals with the issues concerning how compensation should be paid following a … … read more.

London, 29 November 2017 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) is delighted to announce it is hosting an event today which will be addressed by Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, and Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive Officer of the FCA. F … … read more.

London, 25 October 2017 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today publishes its Transparency Draft of the Risk Management Transactions for New Issuance Standard for the Fixed Income markets. The Standard sets out several core principles relevan … … read more.

20 September 2017 The FICC Markets Standard Board (FMSB) has today issued its 2017 Annual Report setting out the progress it has made to enhance standards of behaviour in the wholesale Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (“FICC”) markets. FMSB was … … read more.

The FICC Markets Standard Board (FMSB) has today issued two new sets of Statements of Good Practice as part of its work to improve standards in the wholesale Fixed Income, Commodity and Currency (“FICC”) markets. These documents identify good practice … … read more.

London, 25 May 2017. The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) welcomes the new BIS Global FX Code launched today. The Code is an important step forward in improving practice standards in wholesale FX markets. Mark Yallop, Chair of FMSB said: “Conduct in … … read more.