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
On May 17, the staff of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) Division of Clearing and Risk (“DCR”) issued an advisory (“Advisory”) that encourages entities using prime brokerage (“PB”) arrangements that provide...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
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