Sticking points

摘要

The annual Futures Industry Association (FIA) conference in Boca Raton, Fla. is a good time to take the industry's temperature. The 2012 meeting was somewhat somber, with MF Global still on everyone's mind (PFG hadn't been discovered yet). Volumes were dropping and customers were in hiding. Dodd-Frank still had many gaping holes, and, it being a U.S. presidential election year, there still were many regulatory uncertainties. But the 2013 Boca meeting seemed upbeat.