Foreign Exchange Professionals Association hires Nasdaq’s John Shay as President LeapRate

January 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Foreign Exchange Professionals Association hires Nasdaq's John Shay as President

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA) announced the hire of John Shay as President of the organisation, a newly created role. Additionally, FXPA has hired Mercury Strategies, represented by Justin Slaughter, as its new legal counsel. We are excited to welcome John and Justin to FXPA. They will be involved on a day-to-day basis, leading…

September 06, 2016 BY Mike Fox

FXPA welcomes Jump Trading as Governing Council Member of Forex trade group

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA) today announced the addition of Jump Trading as the newest Governing Council Member of the FX trade group. Jump Trading combines sophisticated quantitative research, best-in-class technology, and an entrepreneurial culture to create a leading global, quantitative-based trading firm. Jump has more than 500 employees across offices in Chicago, New York,…

May 21, 2016 BY Mike Fox

FXPA responds to CFTC, supports buy-side view of Forex derivatives

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA) submitted written comments yesterday in response to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC) meeting held to look at how well the derivatives markets are functioning. The MRAC meeting focused on the impact and implications of the evolving structure of derivatives markets on the movement of…

March 30, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FXPA urges FX exemption from new SEC derivatives rules

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA), a Forex trade body that commenced operations in September 2014, today announces that it has submitted comments to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding proposed rules governing the “Use of Derivatives by Registered Investment Companies and Business Development Companies”. FXPA is calling for an exemption for FX…

February 08, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Forex trade body FXPA names new Chair, Vice Chair

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA), a Forex trade body that started its operations in September 2014, has named a new Chair and Vice Chair and has announced new additions to its Board of Directors. The FXPA announces the election of Chip Lowry, Senior Managing Director of State Street Global Markets, as Chair, and Jill…

January 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FXSpotStream joins Forex trade body FXPA

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA), a Forex trade body that commenced operations in September 2014, on Wednesday announced the addition of one new member. FXSpotStream, a provider of multibank FX aggregation services, has joined FXPA as an Associate Member. “As a bank-owned consortium bringing greater transparency and efficiencies to the FX market, FXSpotStream is pleased…

December 09, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Foreign Exchange Professionals Association adds new membership categories

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA), a Forex body that started operations in September 2014, today announced that it would be offering additional institutional categories of membership effective January 1, 2016. The new Associate level categories will welcome smaller buy side and technology firms, as well as regional and private banks. Associate Member categories are…

September 22, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Thomson Reuters becomes member of Forex trade body FXPA

Thomson Reuters becomes a full member of FXPA, which started operations about a year ago, taking the number of institutional members of the organization to 23.

May 27, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Moscow Exchange joins FXPA

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA), which represents the collective interests of professional Forex industry participants to advance a sound, liquid, transparent and competitive global currency market to policy makers and the marketplace announced yesterday the addition of the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) as full members of the FX trade association. “The Moscow Exchange is extremely…

February 16, 2015 BY Mike Fox

Upstart Forex representative body FXPA elects Board of Directors and Officers

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA) held elections last Friday, February 10th for it's first permanent Board of Directors and Officers. The new FXPA Executive Committee includes: Chair Eric Busay, Portfolio Manager, CalPERS; Vice Chair Adam Cooper, Senior Managing Director and Chief Legal Officer of Citadel LLC; Treasurer Sean Tully, Senior Managing Director, Financial and…

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