Swaps

Because foreign jurisdictions have made significant progress in implementing mandatory clearing regimes, but have not yet fully implemented regimes that encompass the range of products ...

The Division will not recommend that the Commission take an enforcement action against a non-U.S. SD or a non-U.S. MSP established in Australia, Canada, the ...

Even as CFTC staff promise tougher stress tests to come, they’ve issued a new report giving passing grades to five derivatives clearinghouses in the U.S. ...

I regret that derivatives regulation was not more of a focal point of policy discussion during the election. Most Americans would have found the subject ...

It’s getting to be a habit – the CFTC giving the industry additional time to comply with its rules (IA Watch, Aug. 4, 2016). The ...

The Division of Market Oversight extended the no-action relief granted in CFTC Letter 15-55 for certain swaps required to be traded on a swap execution ...

We can bring the data the CFTC holds for the futures markets, as well as the data now collected on the swaps markets, to bear ...

The Proposed Rule defines key terms for purposes of applying the CEA’s swap provisions to cross-border transactions and addresses the cross-border application of the registration ...

The de minimis threshold determines when an entity’s swap dealing activity requires registration with the CFTC. Registration triggers capital and margin requirements as well as ...

I support this initiative to get additional data on this subject, and I do not support changing the threshold at this time. But I wish ...