FIA Global Holds First Board Meeting, Names Jackie Mesa as Executive Director

FIA Global, the new organizational structure that unifies the Futures Industry Association in Washington with the Futures and Options Association in London, and FIA Asia in Singapore, held its first face-to-face board meeting and began setting its work priorities for the coming year. At the meeting, the members of the FIA Global board of directors discussed several pending regulatory issues of critical importance to their collective membership, including:

• the Basel III capital standards,
• cross-border recognition,
• EMIR implementation, and
• Dodd-Frank implementation.

Jackie Mesa, FIA's senior vice president and head of international relations and strategy, will serve as the executive director of FIA Global. Ms. Mesa will be responsible for leading and coordinating its global policy efforts.

Ms. Mesa had been formerly the director of international affairs at the CFTC.

See: FIA Press Release.