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De Minimus Quantity Exemption Registration Requirement

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U.S. federal regulators propose making permanent threshold for swap dealer registration potentially benefitting energy companies...

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Pursuant to regulations promulgated under the Dodd-Frank Act, entities that make a market in swaps, hold themselves out as dealers in swaps or regularly enter into swaps for their own accounts are required to register as swap...more

A&O Shearman

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Proposes to Maintain $8 Billion Swap Dealer De Minimis Threshold and Approves Proposed...

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At the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's open meeting on June 4, 2018, the CFTC voted to propose rules that would permanently maintain the swap dealer de minimis registration threshold at $8 billion. The Commission voted...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

CFTC Extends Swap Dealer De Minimis Phase-In Period

As has been rumored in recent weeks, the CFTC has adopted an order establishing December 31, 2018 as the swap dealer registration de minimis threshold phase-in termination date. With this approval, the de minimis threshold...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

CFTC Chief Supports Extension of Swap Dealer De Minimis Exemption

Under current CFTC rules, market participants who exceed $8 billion in gross notional swap dealing activity over a twelve-month period are required to register with the CFTC as swap dealers during the phase-in period...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Preliminary Report on the Swap Dealer De Minimis Exception

On November 18, the staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a much anticipated report on the de minimis exception from the “swap dealer” definition, the Swap Dealer De Minimis Exception Preliminary...more

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