Four Key Considerations Since SEC Amended Form PF -
In early May, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a final rule amending Form PF, the confidential reporting form for certain SEC-registered investment...more
6/14/2023
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Current risk management program (RMP) requirements of swap dealers (SDs) and future commission merchants (FCMs) will be re-evaluated as part of an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) issued by the Commodity Futures...more
SEC Advertising Rules – Client Resource Center -
November 4 was the compliance date for the new rule governing advertising and solicitation activities by investment advisers. The new rule substantially revises decades old...more
11/14/2022
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Recent alleged recordkeeping failures resulted in aggregate fines in excess of $1.8 billion levied against 11 Wall Street financial institutions and many of their affiliated entities by the Securities and Exchange Commission...more
On July 27, 2022, FINRA filed a proposed rule change with the SEC to make it easier for brokers to work from home. The proposed rule will add a category termed a “Residential Supervisory Location” under FINRA Rule 3110...more
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With some frequency, Katten attorneys field questions from clients about exchange rules on off-exchange execution of futures and options on futures. This Advisory provides a high-level overview on this topic in connection...more
Just like the rest of us, the financial services industry wasn't immune from the numerous and unprecedented pandemic-related challenges over the past year. Through our annual Financial Markets Litigation and Enforcement...more
The CFTC and the exchanges have plenty of activity in the futures space. During a Futures session at Katten's annual Financial Markets Litigation and Enforcement Symposium Series, Katten attorneys and guests discussed swap...more
Recent Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) enforcement actions rely on the anti-manipulation provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) to punish misstatements made to...more
Attached please find the updated Foreign Listed Stock Index Futures and Options Approvals Chart, current as of March 25, 2021. All prior versions are superseded and should be discarded. Please note the following developments...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently adopted final amendments to Part 190 of the CFTC's regulations (the "Final Rules"), governing bankruptcy proceedings with respect to commodity brokers.1 The Final Rules...more
SEC – Statement regarding Special Purpose Broker-Dealers Eligible to Custody Digital Asset Securities (Statement) -
- On December 23, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said that, for a five-year period, it...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) voted to adopt new rules on position limits (Final Rules) in an open meeting on October 15. Once effective, the Final Rules will implement one of the remaining key provisions of...more
On October 15, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission adopted new rules on position limits. The new rules mark an important step forward in a decade-long journey to enact one of the remaining key provisions of Title VII of...more
The year 2020 has been a highly unusual and disruptive year — from the COVID-19 pandemic to natural disasters — our daily lives have changed dramatically. Most notable is the social awakening that has taken place this year...more
Eight years after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) established a comprehensive swap data reporting and public dissemination regulatory regime, on September 17, the Commission adopted extensive...more
Amid the recent, almost daily news of raging wildfires in the western United States and elsewhere, increasingly destructive and deadly hurricanes in the southeast, and record high temperatures in many locations around the...more
KEY POINTS -
- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has finalized its proposed new rule (Final Rule) relating to the cross-border application of certain of its swap regulations.
- The Final Rule supersedes...more
Thanks to recent actions taken by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the five US prudential regulators responsible for the uncleared swap margin rules for bank swap dealers, most US end user participants in...more
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SEC Adopts Amendments and Issues Guidance Related to Proxy Voting Advice -
On July 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the adoption of amendments (the Amendments) to the SEC’s rules...more
Key Points -
- The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) recently released a Risk Alert warning investment advisers, broker-dealers, investment companies,...more
Recent rulings from federal courts enjoined the US Small Business Administration (SBA) from applying its April 2, 2020 Interim Final Rule (April 2 IFR) to limit the types of businesses that can participate in the Paycheck...more
Responding to recent COVID-19-related volatility in futures and options markets and their related agricultural, energy and financial cash markets, and the expectation that such volatility will continue, staff from the three...more
Key Points -
- On April 14, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) proposed an extensive set of amendments to its bankruptcy rules (Proposal), which have not been materially amended since the regulations were...more
The unprecedented havoc wreaked on world economies by COVID-19 has put all manner of entities under financial stress. If some of those entities are your counterparties to swaps under either the 1992 ISDA Master Agreement or...more