Swaps

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 ...

The Commission Sept. 8 took another step to accept a foreign regulator’s approach to overseeing swaps. In this case, it was the Japan Financial Services ...

The de miminis threshold was set in 2012 by the CFTC and the SEC jointly. At that time, the agencies had limited data on the ...

To allow adequate time for consideration of comments on the Proposed Order, the Divisions are further extending the No-Action Relief. Moreover, the Divisions note that ...

DMO believes that Yieldbroker’s operating rules, working in conjunction with Yieldbroker’s AML would provide transactions that are executed on Yieldbroker’s trading platform with a level ...

The Commission Sept. 8 took another step to accept a foreign regulator’s approach to overseeing swaps. In this case, it was the Japan Financial Services ...

The risk of cyberattack probably represents the single greatest threat to the stability and integrity of our markets today. Instances of cyberattacks are all too ...

It’s important to remember that we are still at the early stages of developing this new global framework. Shortly after I took office two years ...

While Japanese law has some strong similarities to our own, there are some areas of divergence that are significant and would allow American companies to ...

My concerns were realized last week when Asian swaps markets ground to a halt amidst confusion about the application of new margin rules to major ...