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Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities.
Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities.


A grouping of activities organisationally in some banks - the FI part referring to bonds etc. Not necessarily a rational organisational grouping.
A grouping of activities organisationally in some banks - the FI part referring to bonds etc.  


Following interest rate and currency market scandals in the years following 2010, FICC has increasingly become used as a market sector classification by regulators. Previously broadly recognisable in, for example, UK usage as encompassing the [[Non-investment product]] and commodities sectors.
Not necessarily a rational organisational grouping.
 
 
Following interest rate and currency market scandals in the years following 2010, FICC has increasingly become used as a market sector classification by regulators.  
 
Previously broadly recognisable in, for example, UK usage as encompassing the [[non-investment product]] and commodities sectors.





Revision as of 16:47, 19 November 2017

1.

Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities.

A grouping of activities organisationally in some banks - the FI part referring to bonds etc.

Not necessarily a rational organisational grouping.


Following interest rate and currency market scandals in the years following 2010, FICC has increasingly become used as a market sector classification by regulators.

Previously broadly recognisable in, for example, UK usage as encompassing the non-investment product and commodities sectors.


2. US

Fixed Income Clearing Corporation.


See also