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Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB)  welcomed Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) on 16 May 2022, to be part of the leading market-led, global standards body for fair and effective wholesale financial markets. Joining FMSB’s 48-strong membership … … read more.

We’re pleased to announce that FMSB is changing its name from FICC Markets Standards Board to Financial Markets Standards Board.This change will help support engagement with a wider range of users of wholesale markets who may be less familiar with the … … read more.

FMSB today announced three new joiners to its Secretariat. In an announcement, CEO Myles McGuiness wrote: “As we move forward in our shared mission to make the financial markets fairer and more effective, we have three new joiners who bring technical, … … read more.

1 March 2022 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today publishes the final Standard for the Conduct of Participants in LBMA Precious Metal Auctions.LBMA Auctions establish prices in certain precious metals that are used as benchmark reference p … … read more.

15 February 2022 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (“FMSB”) today publishes the final Standard for the sharing of investor allocation information in the fixed income primary markets.  Syndicate banks historically have had varied approaches to the … … read more.

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 … … read more.

8 December 2021 – Article by Peter Hobson, Reuters … read more.

FMSB publishes Spotlight Review on precious metals market structure 18 November 2021 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has today published a Spotlight Review examining the existing structure of the precious metals market. This Sp … … read more.

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 framework form … … read more.

FMSB publishes Spotlight Review on examining hybrid working risks in FICC markets   30 September 2021 – The FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has today published a Spotlight Review which examines hybr … … read more.

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The FMSB Annual Report 2020, published on 2 June 2021, presents the significant progress made during 2020 and outlines our priorities for 2021.   … read more.