Swaps

After studying futures orders over the past six years, the CFTC concludes that more and more transactions are automated as opposed to manual and almost ...

The rule amends the de minimis exception within the agency’s definition of a swap dealer

This final rule is another Project KISS proposal simplifying and reducing burdens by revisiting our rules based on staff implementation experience and public comment. ...

making this substituted compliance determination, Commission staff has conducted a principles-based, holistic analysis that focuses on regulatory outcomes rather than on a strict rule-by-rule ...

This overly complex and unduly narrow approach was reflected in the original comparability determination for Japan, which left firms subject to an impractical patchwork of ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“Commission” or “CFTC”) is amending the de minimis exception within the “swap dealer” definition in the Commission’s regulations by establishing ...

The United Kingdom (“UK”) has provided formal notice of its intention to withdraw from the European Union (“EU”). The withdrawal may happen as soon as ...

I take seriously, however, the concern about potential misuse of this provision in ways that are not intended. The preamble makes it clear that ...

It’s not everyday an SRO objects to a rule proposal put forth by its regulator but the NFA is unhappy with the CFTC’s recent proposal ...

While EMIR 2.2 requires a number of implementation steps such that application of EMIR 2.2 to U.S. CCPs will likely not take effect until 2021 ...