Mission & History

About FIA Tech

FIA Tech is a leading technology provider to the global exchange traded derivatives industry. Owned by a consortium of leading clearing firms and the trade association Futures Industry Association, FIA Tech is committed to serving the industry and launching innovative solutions to improve market infrastructure across the listed and cleared derivatives industry.

FIA Tech works in close partnership with the broader industry, including exchanges, clearing houses, clearing firms and other intermediaries, as well as independent software vendors, buyside firms and end users to bring efficiency to the exchange traded and cleared derivatives industry.

FIA Tech has continually worked with the industry to develop and provide key services and technologies which help market participants reduce risk, mitigate operational costs and meet market and regulatory challenges.

More than 8,000 futures market participants use one or more of FIA Tech’s services, giving FIA Tech unique opportunities to provide services across the entire market – buyside firms, end users, FCMs, introducing brokers & market makers.
FIA Tech’s services are delivered using a comprehensive software-as-a-service and transaction processing platform which has allowed FIA Tech’s range of services to scale across a wide range of capabilities with global reach.
Emphasis on security, transparency and scalability

Our Services

Managing legal agreements: Docs

Docs helps the industry manage futures give-up legal agreements by providing a central venue connecting every significant bank, broker, clearing firm and buyside firm.

Reducing cost of brokerage processing: Atlantis

Atlantis for give up brokerage calculation and settlement manages payments to executing brokers related to futures give-up and block trading activity

Reference data: FIA Tech Databank

Databank is a global network for reference data, sourced from over 80+ exchanges and standardized to provide the golden source of reference data for regulatory compliance.

Regulatory reporting: Owner/Controller Repository

OCR is a reporting service to provide FCMs, Swap Dealers and regulators key client data from 8,000 clients/end users, encompassing over 250,000 beneficial owners who have trading activity in listed derivatives to comply with CFTC regulations.