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Staff from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight issued No-Action Relief Letter 25-25 on July 31, 2025 to help ease compliance burdens placed on reporting counterparties in meeting the...more
Reporting counterparties must correct any error in their SDR reporting “as soon as technologically practicable” and, “[i]n all cases, […] within seven business days” after its discovery. If they fail to do so, they must...more
On May 21, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Market Participants Division and Division of Market Oversight jointly issued Staff Letter 25-14 in response to a request from SCB Limited, a Bahamas-based...more
On April 4, 2025, the staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") Market Participants Division ("MPD") issued compliance relief for registered swap dealers ("SDs") from the requirement to provide the so-called...more
On August 26, the CFTC issued an order against a bank for allegedly failing to correctly report millions of swap transactions to a registered swap data repository, in violation of a prior CFTC order, and for failing to...more
On April 30, 2024 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or the “Commission”) finalized amendments to its rules governing reporting requirements for large trader futures and options positions, the latest in a series...more
After adopting final rules in 2020, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) adopted amendments to the capital and financial reporting requirements for Swap Dealers (SDs), which were largely based on prior no-action...more
Updated: reporting requirements for swap dealers, swap participants, and large traders in the futures and options market On April 30, 2024, in two separate releases, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC")...more
On August 12, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued a final rule amending its Regulation 50.4(a) clearing requirements for swaps. The latest in a series of rulemaking that is supportive of the...more
Accurate and timely reporting of swap data is the cornerstone of swap regulation. The CFTC had promulgated its swap reporting rules in 2012, and were after 2012 among the first rules implementing the Dodd-Frank Act to...more
In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose money market fund reforms; the SEC also proposed amendments to Rule 10b5-1 trading plans and to modernize and improve share repurchase...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has unanimously approved amendments to the real-time swap reporting rules in Part 43 of the CFTC’s regulations by, among other things, clarifying the applicability of the rules...more
On July 22, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved a final rule regarding new capital and financial reporting requirements for swap dealers and major swap participants that are not subject to supervision by...more
On February 20, 2020, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) unanimously approved a proposed rule that would revise certain reporting requirements for financially-settled offtake contracts that qualify as “swaps”...more
On September 19, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) adopted new rules and amendments establishing recordkeeping and reporting requirements for security-based swap dealers (SBSDs), major...more
On December 4, the CFTC issued an advisory (Staff Advisory 19-24) providing further guidance on certain requirements applicable to swap dealers, futures commission merchants and major swap participants (collectively,...more
Last week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission publicized a cascade of settlements of enforcement actions alleging breaches of laws and rules related to supervision, spoofing, reporting, and misappropriation of...more
On September 19, the SEC adopted new rules and amendments under Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act establishing recordkeeping and reporting requirements for security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants,...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is proposing a significant, new reporting burden on swaps reporting parties and on swaps data repositories (SDRs). The proposal would impose new requirements on SDRs to verify...more
On April 25, 2019, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) published for public comment proposed amendments to the rules governing swap data repositories (SDRs) and reporting obligations of swap market...more
A swap dealer was fined US $12 million by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for a host of purported noncompliance issues. It was also sanctioned for allegedly not disclosing in two annual chief compliance officer...more
On August 27, 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) published final rules in the Federal Register amending its regulations regarding duties of chief compliance officers (“CCOs”) of swap dealers (“SD”), major...more
On April 26, 2018, J. Christopher Giancarlo, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) and Bruce Tuckman, the CFTC’s Chief Economist, issued a white paper outlining changes to swaps...more
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), signed into law on July 21, 2010, was the largest overhaul of the U.S. derivatives market in history. While there are still a few parts of Dodd-Frank...more
On November 30, 2017, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission‘s (“CFTC“) Division of Market Oversight announced in a no-action letter that it had extended relief it provided certain CFTC-registered swap dealers (“SD“)...more