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USA - September 19 2012
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and related regulations have introduced a wide variety of new rules governing activities in the previously unregulated swap market and imposing significant obligations on swap market participants.
USA - March 9 2012
Until now, operators and advisors of investment vehicles that trade in listed futures contracts and commodity options (so-called commodity “pools”) have enjoyed exemption from registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) provided they managed pools of capital funded solely by sophisticated investors.
USA - February 1 2012
A fter the failures of Lehman Brothers and MF Global, market participants should appreciate the importance of understanding the whereabouts of their collateral and all possible competing claims to that collateral – regardless of whether it is posted to support commodities, swaps or futures trading, or held in custody by a prime broker or other financial institution.
USA - December 5 2010
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act represents a paradigm shift in the financial regulatory environment, introducing the most sweeping changes to financial regulation in the United States since the series of regulations passed in the wake of the Great Depression.
