Swaps

Since Congress passed Dodd-Frank, we have increased oversight of major market players through the registration and regulation of major swap participants and swap dealers. More ...

Commissioner Wetjen urges improved transparency for standardizing stress tests, consideration of a requirement for CCP capital contributions to a guarantee fund and ensuring that recovery ...

Commissioner Bowen urges against the temptation to ratchet back or weaken prior versions of swaps rules.

DSIO is issuing conditional no-action relief permitting a provisionally registered swap dealer to satisfy certain of its requirements under Rule 3.3 by reporting to, and ...

CFTC's Division of Market Oversight issues time-limited no-action relief from certain requirements of Part 45 and Part 46 of the Commission's regulations, for Certain Swap ...

A new proposed rule from the CFTC would wipe away the requirement that commodity trading advisors (CTAs) save recordings of swap transactions (IA Watch, Nov. ...

The difficulty of getting a handle on new rules for trading derivatives intensifies when two regulators don’t agree.   Take the segregation of margin for ...

Chairman Massad talks challenges ahead, including the oversight of clearinghouses, cross-border regulations, swaps trading and cybersecurity.

Commissioner Wetjen suggests six steps the Commission should take to ease concerns about its swaps regulations. These include to amend the agency's no-action letter on ...

This is an extension of a previous no-action letter from the CFTC.