With the CFTC’s approval of the SEF rules last Thursday, swap users and would-be SEFs are targeting early December as the time when all swap users will be transacting standardized swaps on SEFs....more
5/20/2013
- CFTC Dodd-Frank SEFs Swaps
At 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, the CFTC held an open meeting to consider trade execution rules and interpretive guidance regarding anti-disruptive trading practices authority....more
5/17/2013
- CFTC Swaps Trading Plans
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is reportedly contemplating lowering the number of price quotes a buyer is required to request before trading swaps....more
5/9/2013
- CFTC Dodd-Frank Price Quotes Swaps
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. (DTCC) sued the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday claiming that the derivatives regulator made “anti-competitive rules,” regarding swap trading data, that favor two...more
5/6/2013
- Anti-Competitive CFTC Dodd-Frank DTCC Swaps
Swaps clearing deadline nears, as close to 250 to 300 U.S. investment managers are required to begin clearing swaps transactions by June 10th. According to Reuters, asset managers have been slow to create accounts with...more
4/15/2013
- Proposed Regulation Swap Clearing Swap Market Swaps
Oil industry companies have largely managed to avoid the scrutiny of derivatives trading and registration as swap dealers, according to Reuters. In January of this year, the CFTC required that companies register as dealers if...more
3/28/2013
- CFTC Oil & Gas Swap Dealers Swaps
U.S. House and Senate lawmakers introduced legislation that would facilitate more swaps trading to be conducted at banks that have federal insurance by repealing a part of the Dodd-Frank Act....more
3/7/2013
- Dodd-Frank Swaps
The CFTC’s Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) today announced a revised compliance schedule for required clearing of iTraxx CDS Indices. The CFTC received notice from ICE Clear Credit LLC that it has begun offering customer...more
2/26/2013
- CEA CFTC Compliance Swap Clearing Swaps
The National Futures Assocation (NFA) announced yesterday that Cargill Inc is the first major non-financial entity to be registered as a swap dealer. Cargill operates in a range of commodity markets and is based out of...more
2/25/2013
- CFTC NFA Registration Swap Dealers Swaps
New U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission head Elisse Walter set the stage for the commission’s upcoming regulatory year on Friday. Walters placed capital raising, market structure, and issues of extraterritoriality...more
1/22/2013
- Cross-Border SEC Swaps
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today finalized new rules that require certain interest rate swaps and credit default swaps (CDS) to be cleared by derivatives clearing organizations (DCOs). The rule...more
11/29/2012
- CFTC Swaps
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will meet this Thursday to decide which swaps will require clearing at clearinghouses owned by CME Group Inc. and ICE.
The move to central clearing, where...more
11/26/2012
- CFTC Swaps
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Wednesday issued for public comment a new “CFTC Swaps Report” that tries to pry the lid off the “dark swaps market.”
The CFTC Swaps report aims at market...more
11/15/2012
- CFTC Swap Market Swaps
CME Group’s lawsuit against the CFTC over swaps regulation has a new twist: The Depository Trust and Clearing Corp (DTCC) is evaluating legal action against CME should the case move forward....more
11/13/2012
- CFTC CME Swap Market Swaps
