OSI: Managing the Impact Analysis

The Options Symbology Initiative (OSI) is an industry-wide effort whose time has finally come. In planning for a number of years, the OSI will address the standardization of options-related naming and quote conventions. As with other industry initiatives such as decimalization and the introduction of the euro, the OSI reaches into the very fabric of market infrastructure and touches each piece of the options-trading product lifecycle - originating at the exchanges and proceeding to the front and