Swaps

Although I do not agree with every part of the proposal, I believe the proposal and questions lay out the key issues to allow for ...

Another month, another memorandum of understanding signed by the CFTC. This time with the UK’s regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority.   The reason for the ...

The Division of Market Oversight is issuing a no-action letter that extends the relief provided in Letter No. 15-60 by permitting swap execution facilities (“SEFs”) ...

To give the agency more time to sift through comments about its security-based swap data repository registration rules, the SEC has extended the industry’s compliance ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is adopting an amendment to Commission regulation 50.4(a) to expand the existing clearing requirement for interest rate ...

The CFTC has finalized its proposal from this summer to expand the list of interest rate swaps that will have to be cleared through a ...

I am very pleased that we are continuing this progress by expanding the Commission’s swap clearing requirement to include interest rate swaps denominated in nine ...

The Order finds that from at least March 1, 2013 through November 13, 2015, every LTR submitted by Wells Fargo failed to meet Part 20 ...

The CFTC’s resistance to innovation is also evident in its implementation of important Dodd-Frank reforms on swaps trading. In 2013, the CFTC adopted final rules ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘CFTC’’) is adopting final rules amending its current system safeguards rules for designated contract markets, swap execution facilities, and ...