Chairman Gensler Outlines Timeline for Finalizing and Implementing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Dodd-Frank Rulemakings

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In a speech (a copy of which can be found here) at the recent Futures Industry Association (FIA) conference held in Boca Raton, Florida, earlier this week, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler laid out his new “best case” plan for proposing the remaining rules to be promulgated by the CFTC under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) and then finalizing all of the CFTC’s Dodd-Frank rulemakings. An outline of Chairman Gensler’s plan can be found here.

Under Chairman Gensler’s best case scenario, the CFTC will issue all except one1 of its proposed rules by the end of April 2011 and will finalize its rules in three phases between the Spring of 2011 and the Fall of 2011. Chairman Gensler also acknowledged concerns regarding the need to sequence and delay the effective dates of the CFTC’s final rules to allow market participants time to prepare for, and adopt to, the new requirements imposed by the rules. Chairman Gensler’s new plan is a departure from his original goal of actually finalizing all of the CFTC’s Dodd-Frank rulemakings during the first half of 2011.

CFTC Rules to be Proposed. At this time, the CFTC has yet to propose rules in five areas for which the Dodd-Frank Act requires CFTC rulemakings. These areas include: capital and margin requirements, the definitions of “swap” and “security-based swap,” collateral segregation requirements for cleared swaps, testing and supervision requirements, and the Volcker Rule. The CFTC is also planning to propose conforming changes to several of its existing regulations. Earlier this week, the CFTC published notices of two open meetings, one on March 30, 2011 and one on April 7, 2011, to consider some of these proposed rulemakings. Information about which proposed rulemakings or other matters the CFTC will consider at these meetings will be published in the Federal Register one week before each meeting.

Final CFTC Rules. The Federal Register has now published all of the CFTC’s proposed rulemakings to date and one proposed interpretive order issued by the CFTC. A list of all of these proposals, including the date that each proposal was published in the Federal Register and the date by which comments must be submitted for each proposal, is available here. Comment periods remain open for 15 of these proposals.

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