News releases

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.

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.