Open for Business: SEFs Navigate the New Regulatory Environment
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
In a marked departure from its position since 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued No-Action Letter 25-24 on July 30, 2025 (Letter 25-24), stating that it will not recommend enforcement action against...more
- What is new: The CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight issued a no-action letter providing reporting counterparties relief from the requirement to report swap-reporting errors impacting less than 5% of their open swaps. -...more
Editor's Note The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency, specifically...more
In November 2020, the CFTC published two no-action letters extending previously granted no-action relief related to Brexit. The relief was intended to provide “greater certainty to the global marketplace” in connection with...more
On July 27, 2016, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) proposed amendments to its rules (“Proposed Rules”) that loosen the conditions for exemption from registration as a futures commission merchant (“FCM”),...more
On August 18, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight issued No-Action Letter No. 14-108, which provides time-limited conditional relief to swap execution facilities (SEFs) from certain...more