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
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