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Brief introduction of futures industry association
In recent years, its influence has gradually surpassed the national boundaries of the United States and become an international futures association. It attracts participants from domestic and foreign futures markets. At present, the FIA has more than 200 corporate members, including full members and joint members. The formal members of FIA are generally commission merchants, and their futures business accounts for almost 80% of the trading business of American futures exchanges. The joint members of FIA include international exchanges, banks, law and accounting firms, introduction brokers, commodity trading consultants, commodity joint venture fund managers, other market users and information and equipment suppliers headquartered in the United States. As legal person members, employees of members are eligible to join the FIA branch, obtain FIA publications, use FIA laws, statistics and information resources, and participate in activities organized by FIA. FIA has set up branches in new york, Chicago, London and Japan.

FIA holds various types of large-scale conferences or activities every year to provide opportunities and places for the futures industry to discuss key issues and development opportunities. These conferences mainly include: International Futures Conference, which is held by FIA every spring in Boca Raton, Florida, and attracts people from all over the world to discuss hot issues in the industry and opinions of exchanges. Public policy leaders, including senators, representatives, regulatory officials and congressional staff, will attend the meeting. ?

Legal and enforcement seminars-FIA legal and enforcement departments hold seminars for law enforcement officials, lawyers and regulators every spring to discuss the legal and regulatory framework affecting the derivatives industry. New york Operation and Technology Conference-held by FIA new york Operation Department in new york every April, mainly attended by operation and technical professionals, covering settlement, ordering, electronic trading, trading technology, standards and back-office systems.

International derivatives conference-an international conference jointly organized by FIA and FOA every spring, which mainly emphasizes the international futures business, operation and legal issues. ?

Expo Futures and Options Expo is held in Chicago every autumn, which is the largest event in the global futures industry. The conference showed the latest products and services, and its seminar part emphasized brokerage business, trading system and strategy, and user needs. FII, founded in 1989, is a non-profit educational base established by the FIA board of directors. The mission of the college is to provide education and high-quality information sources on futures, options and other derivatives. The income from all FII training activities and sales of educational materials will be returned to the futures industry by publishing new materials and arranging new activities. ?

FIA also publishes periodicals regularly to introduce the latest information of the current futures industry to its members. Its main publications are: weekly report-weekly news report on the futures industry, including speeches by major officials of the industry and the government, FIA comments, special reports, CFTC and federal registration notices, and information on industry activities. Newsletter-publishes a monthly newsletter called "Market Beat", covering FIA and industry news. The main contents include the latest actions and suggestions taken by CFTC and the legislature that affect the futures industry, trading volume data, FII news and FIA and FII activity schedule.