Swaps

Last fall the commission issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking that laid out three different cross-border approaches it could take. The comment file appears ...

This is the CFTC's clarification of its interpretation concerning forward contracts with embedded volumetric optionality, released by the SEC and other regulators, too.

The position limits rulemaking is a significant undertaking and both the CFTC and its staff are struggling to get it right. I continue to keep ...

I have also encouraged European officials to consider focusing their standards on those benchmarks that are most widely used, so that smaller contracts are not ...

The CFTC is proposing to amend the trade option exemption in its regulations, as described herein, in the following subject areas: Reporting requirements for trade ...

Chair Massad uses illustrations to demonstrate that regulators "should start with customer margin – with requiring gross posting and mandatory collection from customers. Those are ...

In this speech, Chairman Massad tells Congress that the CFTC hopes to gain international agreement on a new swaps regulatory framework.

He pushes the idea of coming up with model rules in hopes that the industry could adopt them to improve best practices.

In an action that accepts the reality of the international derivatives market, SEC Commissioners Wednesday unanimously approved a new proposal relating to when a non-U.S. ...

Commissioner Bowen discusses instruments containing a forward contract with volumetric variability.