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CFTC Unanimously Approves Final Rule for Granting Exemptions from Derivatives Clearing Organization Registration

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On November 18, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) unanimously approved a final rule establishing a framework for the Commission to grant an exemption from registration as a derivatives clearing...more

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CFTC Finalizes New Requirement Applying Statutory Disqualification Prohibitions to CPOs Exempt under CFTC Regulation 4.13 – Exempt...

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CFTC Also Proposes Amendments to Help Non-U.S. CPOs and Extends its Uncleared Swap Margin Phase-In Schedule - During the period from late May 2020 through early June 2020, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission held...more

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CFTC Proposes New Rules on DCO Exemptions

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On August 8, 2018 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) voted unanimously to propose rules (Proposed Rules) which would codify policies and procedures related to exempting derivatives clearing organizations (DCOs)...more

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CFTC Expands Interest Rate Swap Clearing Requirements

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One of the major goals of the Dodd-Frank Act, enacted in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, was to bring the swaps market under regulation generally and to require that standardized swaps be cleared by a central...more

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CFTC Issues Order of Exemption From Registration as a DCO to ASX Clear (Futures) Pty Limited and Requests Public Comment on a...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued an order of exemption from registration as a derivatives clearing organization (DCO) to ASX Clear (Futures) Pty Limited (ASX). This is the first order that the CFTC has...more

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Financial Services Bulletin: Action At Federal Agencies

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CFTC Approves Final Cooperative Swap Clearing Exemption Rule and Issues Time-Limited No-Action Relied - On Tuesday, August 13, 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) issued a final rule to exempt...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

CFTC Proposes Exemptions to Regulation of Transactions in ISO/RTO Markets as “Swaps” Under CEA

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has proposed to exempt specific transactions in FERC-administered ISO and RTO markets and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) from the provisions of the Commodity...more

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CFTC Proposes Inter-Affiliate Clearing Exemption

On August 16, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a proposed rule to exempt swaps between certain affiliated entities from the clearing requirement set forth in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...more

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