Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Archive

MFA closely monitors legislative and regulatory actions and identifies the issues important to its members. MFA initiatives, on behalf of the industry, often result in comment letters, testimony, news releases and other relevant announcements which are announced and posted herein.

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2.1.2010		MFA submitted a letter to the UK House of Lords in response to a Call for Evidence from the Subcommittee regarding the European Commission’s Communications on ensuring safe and sound derivatives markets. In our letter, we: (i) discussed the benefits of the derivatives markets; (ii) noted that derivatives helped market participants to hedge their risk exposures during the worst months of the financial crisis; (iii) agreed that the European Commission’s approach to monitor and, when appropriate, to impose minimum collateral levels with respect to non-cleared derivatives transactions is the correct level of oversight; and (iv) encouraged the European Commission to coordinate its regulation and oversight of the derivatives markets with other regulators around the world to prevent market segmentation
1.26.2010		MFA President and CEO Richard H. Baker will Co-chair the 12th Annual Hedge Funds Care charity benefit on February 25th, 2010.
1.19.2010		MFA today announced it has formed an alliance with the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association (CTHFA)
1.8.2010		MFA today announced it will launch an initiative to gather information from hedge funds, funds of funds and managed futures funds, for use in its industry education and advocacy efforts using the PerTrac P-Card.