Compliance Reminders for 2022 -
Registered investment advisers to private funds clients are required to make filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) each year and deliver certain information to their...more
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- Proposed Regulation AT sets out minimum pre-trade safeguards and internal policy requirements on all “AT Persons,” which would generally include persons using algorithmic systems for generating...more
On September 22, 2015, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) proposed certain changes in a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (the “Supplemental Notice”) to the position limit aggregation rules and...more
The staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) yesterday changed its position and no longer requires a no-action request for delegation of commodity pool operator (CPO) functions from persons that might...more
The staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) published a no-action letter on September 9, 2014 (available here) that permits certain commodity pool operators (CPOs) to conduct general solicitation in private...more
9/12/2014
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On March 12, 2014, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) staff issued the long-awaited guidance letter relating to the delegation of commodity pool operator (CPO) functions from persons that might otherwise be...more
On November 5, 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) re-proposed speculative position limits relating to certain U.S. exchange-listed physical commodity futures contracts as well as to swaps that reference the...more
Swaps market participants that are not “U.S. persons” may not be subject to the full requirements of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) swaps regulation, depending on with whom they enter into a swap. Also,...more
On August 13, 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) adopted amendments to certain provisions of Part 4 of the CFTC regulations that are applicable to all commodity pool operators (CPOs) and commodity trading...more
8/21/2013
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In their joint swap definitions release in July 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made a distinction between (i) a “compo” equity total return swap, in...more