Many Commodity Futures Trading Commission registrants and other market participants are responding to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by implementing business continuity plans that move personnel from their “normal...more
3/23/2020
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CFTC ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
DSIO ,
Financial Markets ,
Foreign Exchanges ,
Futures ,
Market Participants ,
No-Action Relief ,
Relief Measures ,
Swaps
Relief issued by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission resolves any doubts that UK firms, as well as their swap counterparties and affiliates, may have had about whether no-action relief would continue to apply to UK...more
The amendments to the CFTC’s registration rules will codify no-action relief that permits non-US asset managers to rely on an exemption from the requirement to register with the CFTC by virtue of trading uncleared swaps in...more
8/4/2016
/ Asset Management ,
Brokers ,
CFTC ,
Commodity Pool ,
Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) ,
CPOs ,
No-Action Relief ,
Non-US Entities ,
Proposed Rules ,
Registration Requirement ,
Uncleared Swaps
No-action relief confirms that non-US asset managers may rely on an exemption from CFTC registration when trading uncleared swaps in the United States for the accounts of their non-US clients, an issue that had been in doubt...more
2/22/2016
/ CFTC ,
Commodity Pool ,
Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) ,
CPOs ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Foreign Business Exemption ,
No-Action Relief ,
Non-US Entities ,
Swap Clearing ,
Swaps ,
Uncleared Swaps
Claims for relief from CPO registration by qualifying family offices and fund of funds operators must be filed by December 31.
On November 29, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC's) Division of Swap Dealer...more