Swaps

Congress via Dodd-Frank in 2010 ordered the CFTC to set position limits for derivatives as a way to limit excessive speculation. The CFTC has now ...

For the second time in five years, the CFTC has proposed capital and financial reporting rules for swap dealers and major swap participants.   The ...

The accuracy and completeness of swap reporting are critical to the Commission’s mission to protect market participants and to ensure market integrity. In particular, the ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“Commission” or “CFTC”) is proposing to adopt new regulations and to amend existing regulations to implement sections 4s(e) and (f) ...

We have made many changes to the 2013 proposal we inherited that are reflected in today’s reproposal. Certain aspects have been previously proposed in separate ...

With today’s repreposal, the Commission moves one step closer to the implementation of position limits as directed by Congress in 2010. CFTC staff has worked ...

My concern regarding previous earlier proposals has been that they would restrict bona fide hedging activity or harm America’s agriculture and energy industries that have ...

The reproposal we have approved today recognizes this diversity. It supports competition as well as safety and soundness, by providing three different approaches. First, for ...

I am concerned about the proposed capital model review and approval process. The proposal states that the Commission expects that a prudential regulator’s or foreign ...

The Division of Market Oversight (“Division”) continues to assess the situation involving inter-affiliate swap trading and the trade execution requirement, including establishing a permanent solution, ...