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Derivatives market participants and exchanges can breathe a little easier now that Staff of the Market Participants Division and the Division of Market Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or...more
The CFTC staff have issued interpretative guidance regarding the application of cross-border definitions under the CFTC’s regulatory regimes covering swaps, foreign futures and foreign options transactions, and foreign boards...more
On May 20, 2025, two divisions within the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) — the Market Participants Division (“MPD”) and the Enforcement Division (“DOE”) — released procedures providing guidance on how the...more
Derivatives market participants continue to process the implications of two significant interpretive letters issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) staff earlier this year. Letter 25-09 effectively...more
On April 9, 2025, the Markets Participants Division and the Division of Market Oversight (collectively, the “Divisions”) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) published a Staff Letter (the “Staff Letter”)...more
Sometimes a small footnote (which technically is not even a part of the official Federal rule) may have an outsize impact on the rule itself. In 2013, subsequent to the enactment of the Dodd Frank Act of 2010, the Commodity...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") recently proposed new and modified conflicts of interest, fitness, and governance regulations for swap execution facilities ("SEFs") and designated contract markets ("DCMs")....more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") has proposed swap reporting and recordkeeping amendments that would: designate a unique product identifier ("UPI") and product classification system ("PCS") for the "other...more
Two settled enforcement actions in April 2023 indicate that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) is expecting increased swaps disclosure by swap dealers under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and applicable CFTC...more
In response to changes in business practices, regulations and laws eventually change, too. During the past few years derivatives markets are witnessing this change as it applies to trading facilities as well as to entities...more
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a complaint on Jan. 9, 2023, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Avraham Eisenberg. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...more
Amendments to swap data reporting rules are expected to be implemented by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in December 2022. The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have issued guidance to market...more
On January 3, 2022, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced an order against and settlement with Polymarket, a blockchain-enabled prediction market that allows users to “bet” on the occurrence of certain...more
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission adopted final rules on June 25 prohibiting post–trade name give-up for anonymously executed and intended-to-be-cleared swaps effected on swap execution facilities....more
On May 28, 2020, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) unanimously approved an interim final rule extending the Phase 5 compliance date for the Commission’s initial margin rules (Interim Final Rule)...more
To help address market participants in the face of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organization of Securities Commissions have provided a one-year extension...more
Many Commodity Futures Trading Commission registrants and other market participants are responding to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by implementing business continuity plans that move personnel from their “normal...more
BROKER-DEALER - SEC Issues Guidance on Substituted Compliance Applications by Non-US Security-Based Swap Dealers and Major Security-Based Swap Participants - On November 25, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s...more
In a regulatory first, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced its 2019 examination priorities for registrants of the Division of Market Oversight (DMO), the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) issued a release (the “SEF Proposing Release”) that would make significant revisions to the regulatory requirements that apply under Part 37 of the CFTC Rules (the...more
The Dodd-Frank Act requires entities that engage in swap activities to either submit their swaps for clearing with a central clearinghouse or to collect and post collateral (margin) based on the daily mark-to-market exposure...more
In 2017, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo made clear he will strive to improve, not abolish, many reforms the CFTC adopted to implement the Dodd-Frank Act’s mandate for new...more
CFTC Approves Amendments to Rules on Intermediary Registration and Review of Adverse Actions - On January 9, 2018, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the "CFTC") approved final rules that update Parts 3 and 9...more
Both U.S. and European Union (EU) law require that certain swaps and derivatives trades take place only on approved trading platforms. On October 13, 2017, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) Chairman J....more
On October 17, 2017, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) newly formed financial technology (fintech) innovation group, LabCFTC, released its first fintech primer, “A CFTC Primer on Virtual Currencies” (VC...more