March 16, 2017
The annual International Futures Industry conference in Boca Raton, Fla. highlighted what the industry hopes to be a return of balance on the regulatory front. FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken, in his opening remarks, talked about how the pendulum had swung too far in the direction of proscriptive rules since the 2008 credit crisis thanks in part to the 22,000 separate Dodd-Frank Act rules, and that it was time for balance. Lukken said that the industry’s innovative muscles had atrophied due to the deluge of regulations and that it was time “to get back to the gym.”