Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

"A lack of liquidity and transparency can negatively impact the ability of derivatives markets participants to manage and mitigate risk"

The Final Rule generally prohibits persons who have, or whose principals have, in their backgrounds any of the statutory disqualifications from claiming a CPO registration ...

The Commission is proposing a set of principles for DCMs to address the prevention, detection, and mitigation of market disruptions and system anomalies associated with ...

Post-trade name give-up may still be necessary to accommodate trading mechanisms and infrastructures currently used for U.S. Treasury swap spreads that do not allow for ...

In response to significant concerns regarding the COVID-19 outbreak, BCBS/IOSCO decided to amend its margin policy framework to further extend the implementation schedule for the ...

The eligible affiliate counterparties electing the exemption must pay and collect variation margin on swaps with all other eligible affiliate counterparties with whom they enter ...

The Commission continues to interpret the term ‘‘virtual currency’’ broadly

The final rules inadvertently omitted § 39.13(g)(8)(iii), which was not proposed to be modified

Both registered and exempt CPOs will be required to represent that they and their respective principals are not subject to certain statutory disqualifications under the ...

The pandemic and market volatility that “has reached historic levels” explain the change