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Swap Dealers Commodity Futures Contracts

Swap Dealers are individuals or entities who "hold themselves out as dealers in swaps, make markets in swaps, regularly enter into swaps with counterparties as an ordinary course of business for its own... more +
Swap Dealers are individuals or entities who "hold themselves out as dealers in swaps, make markets in swaps, regularly enter into swaps with counterparties as an ordinary course of business for its own account, or engage in any activity causing the individual or entity to be come commonly known in the trade as a dealer or market maker of swaps." Swap Dealers are defined under the Commodity and Exchange Act and must register as such under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Final Rules.  less -
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CFTC Re-Proposes Position Limits for Certain Commodity Futures Contracts and Economically Equivalent Swaps

- Federal spot month limits would expand to cover 25 physical commodity futures, as well as certain “look alike” contracts and OTC swaps on the same underlying commodity. - Limits generally would be set at higher levels...more

Bracewell LLP

The CFTC Proposes a New Approach to Federal Position Limits -- Will This One Stick?

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At its open meeting held on January 30, 2020, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “the Commission”) approved a proposed rulemaking to institute federal position limits in an effort to prevent excessive...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging the Weeks - October 2019

Last week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission publicized a cascade of settlements of enforcement actions alleging breaches of laws and rules related to supervision, spoofing, reporting, and misappropriation of...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging The Week - September 2019 #4

Both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Chicago Board of Trade settled related disciplinary actions for speculative position limits violations. The CFTC sanctioned the trading firm while the CBOT sanctioned the...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging the Week - May 2019 #3

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission determined not to stand in the way of a rule amendment by ICE Futures U.S. to impose speed bumps on certain orders entered in two futures contracts traded on the exchange. Two...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging the Week - September 2014 #2

CFTC Proposes Margin Rules for Uncleared Swaps and Approves Special Treatment for Operations-Related Swaps With Certain Government-Owned Natural Gas and Electric Utilities - A few weeks after the Federal Reserve Bank...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CFTC Re-Proposes Position Limits for Certain Commodity Futures Contracts and Economically Equivalent Swaps

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

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