The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) has released proposed rules regarding the criteria under which it will designate certain financial market utilities (FMUs) as "systemically important."
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act defines an FMU generally as any person that manages or operates a multilateral system for the purposes of transferring, clearing or settling payments, securities, or other financial transactions among financial institutions or between a financial institution and that person.
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