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WORD OF THE DAY® for Hedge Funds – Derivative
Cross-Border Regulation of Swaps Update from ISDA's Robert Pickel (Part 1)
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Regulation 2013: Dodd-Frank Position Limits, CFTC Reuthorization, Regulatory Harmonization
UPDATE: On 1 May 2025, NFA withdrew Interpretive Notice 9083. The guidance remains available on NFA’s website for industry participants’ review....more
On April 17, 2025, as previewed in the Division of Enforcement’s (“DoE”) February 25, 2025, “Advisory on Self-Reporting, Cooperation, and Remediation”, the Staff of the Market Participants Division (“MPD”) laid the remaining...more
On February 25, 2025, the Division of Enforcement (the “Division”) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC” or “Commission”) issued an Enforcement Advisory which quantifies the monetary credit that entities can...more
The emergence of event-based trading platforms such as KalshiEX LLC and Crypto.com/Nadex has sparked a heated regulatory and policy debate over the boundaries of financial derivatives, speculation and gambling. Both platforms...more
January is at least eight weeks – I’m certain of it. Now that it’s February we know who’s running the CFTC and its different Divisions, for the time being. Acting Chair Pham comes to her position with a long history of...more
The European Commission has adopted a Delegated Regulation supplementing the EU Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation on OTC derivatives identifying reference data to be used for the purposes of the transparency...more
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the International Organization of Securities Commissions published a final report on examples of effective practices for streamlining variation margin in centrally...more
Although Congress has neither formulated a regulatory framework for the digital asset industry nor anointed a federal regulatory agency as the de facto overseer of digital asset-related activities affecting interstate...more
In 2014, the Joint Audit Committee issued a Regulatory Alert insisting that futures commission merchant (FCM) clearing members treat separate accounts of the same beneficial owner as a single account for purposes of US...more
This article is the seventh and final in our series on equity-based compensation. It will provide an overview of special considerations for publicly-traded companies when granting equity awards, including the impact of proxy...more
With appropriate safeguards, distributed ledger technology may expand the use of non-cash assets as derivatives collateral, while mitigating certain market infrastructure inefficiencies....more
IT teams will want to contribute to the debate over the FCA’s proposed changes, which could introduce additional complexities and lead to major IT costs for firms....more
On November 15, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury published the final rule implementing President Biden’s August 9, 2023 Executive Order on outbound investment, which addresses concerns related to China’s advancement...more
Key Takeaways: •In the last 3 months, the Commodity Futures Exchange Commission (CFTC) has issued 3 orders against firms violating positions limits, totaling $2.3 million in fines. •CFTC position limit rules apply not...more
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Antitrust and Competition - The European Commission Carried Out Unannounced Inspections in the Tires Sector - On 30 January 2024, the Commission conducted dawn raids at the premises of several companies active in the tires...more
At an industry event in early 2023, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or the Commission) Chairman Rostin Behnam set out a comprehensive agenda to include nearly three dozen rulemaking proposals as well as “business...more
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has published a new ISDA SLD Clause Library (SLD Provisions) containing standardized clauses and definitions for use in sustainability-linked derivatives (SLDs). The...more
On December 4, 2023 the CFTC issued proposed guidance regarding the listing of voluntary carbon credit ("VCC") derivative contracts ("Proposed Guidance"). The Proposed Guidance outlines factors that designated contract...more
On October 13, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new Rule 10c-1a under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (1934 Act), requiring certain persons to report securities loan information to...more
The SEC shortened Schedule 13D and Schedule 13G beneficial ownership reporting deadlines and amended disclosure requirements. The SEC modified and accelerated the initial filing and amendment deadlines, as well as...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) recently adopted amendments1 to Rule 35d-1 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, the fund “Names Rule” (“Amendments”). In the Release, the SEC noted that the Amendments...more
On October 10, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) adopted amendments to modernize the rules governing beneficial ownership reporting. The amendments shorten the deadline for initial and amended...more
On September 20, 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) voted, by a 4-1 vote, to adopt certain amendments (the “final rule” or the “amendments”) to Rule 35d-1 (the “Names Rule”) under the Investment...more
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced that the regulatory authorities of each jurisdiction in Canada, except for British Columbia, have adopted Multilateral Instrument 93-101, entitled Derivatives—Business...more