fcms in A Sentence

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    Interest on customer funds had been a staple for Fcms, but dried up in the era of ZIRP(2008-2015).

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    Traditional futures brokerage firms and Futures Commission Merchants(Fcms) also usually require a customer be a high net worth individual or professional trader with experience in financial markets.

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    What has emerged is an environment with fewer but more efficient Fcms that have survived difficult times and come out on the other side stronger and more efficient.

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    What has emerged is an environment with fewer but more efficient Fcms that have survived difficult times and come out on the other side stronger and more efficient.

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    Indeed, we have highlighted the consolidation in the FCM space over the years, and those brokers who depended on earning interest on customer funds could not survive seven years of ZIRP(see“Shrinking Fcms,” below).

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    Although the CEA provides that affiliates of Fcms who maintain adjusted net capital of at least $20 million and for whom the FCM makes and keeps risk assessment records may act as a counterparty in retail forex transactions, the CFTC rules require such affiliates to register as RFEDs.

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    In recent years, futures commission merchants(Fcms) have focused on creating efficiencies and adjusting to the“new normal” which included increased regulatory and compliance costs, tougher competition in a mature consolidating industry, dealing with aggressive product pricing from exchanges and perhaps most significantly, a more than decade-long low interest rate environment.

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