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Foreign listed stock index futures and options approvals

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • February 15 2012

Attached please find the updated Foreign Listed Stock Index Futures and Options Approvals Chart, current as of February 15, 2012

CFTC issues interpretation of Dodd-Frank anti-fraud authority

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 9 2011

Amendments made to the Commodity Exchange Act by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act) require that an agreement, contract or transaction in any commodity that is entered into with, or offered to, a non-eligible contract participant or non-eligible commercial entity on a leveraged, margined, or financed basis must be conducted on a regulated exchange and be subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s anti-fraud authority, unless actual delivery of the commodity is made within 28 days

CFTC adopts final rule on investment of customer funds

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 9 2011

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has adopted amendments to CFTC Rules 1.25 and 30.7 that would narrow the scope of permissible investments for customer funds held by futures commission merchants (FCMs) and derivatives clearing organizations (DCOs) in the customer segregated account maintained under section 4d(a)(2) of the Commodity Exchange Act or the foreign futures and foreign options secured amount account maintained in accordance with CFTC Rule 30.7

Public meeting of the technology advisory committee

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 9 2011

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting on December 13, to address: (1) emerging issues in relation to swap execution facilities; (2) high frequency traders and their market impact; and (3) interim recommendations from the subcommittee on data standardization regarding universal product and legal entity identifiers, standardization of machine-readable legal contracts, and data storage and retrieval

CFTC Division of Market Oversight guidebook for Part 20 reports

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 9 2011

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight has issued a guidebook containing additional guidance and detailed instructions for submitting large swap trader reports required by new Part 20 of the CFTC’s rules

CFTC issues proposed rule on process for making a swap available to trade

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 9 2011

If a swap execution facility (SEF) or designated contract market (DCM) makes a “swap available to trade,” all other SEFs and DCMs listing or offering that swap or an economically equivalent swap must also make those swaps available to trade for purposes of the trade execution requirements of section 2(h)(8) of the CEA

CFTC allows U.S. trading of Taiwan Futures Exchange's futures contract on GTEX

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • Taiwan, USA
  • -
  • October 28 2011

On October 24, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Office of General Counsel issued a no-action letter allowing the offer and sale in the United States of the GreTai Securities Market Capitalized Weighted Stock Index (GTEX) futures contract that is traded on the Taiwan Futures Exchange

Position limits for futures and swaps

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 21 2011

At its October 18 open meeting, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission also approved final rules on speculative position limits for futures and swaps

Derivatives clearing organization general provisions and core principles

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 21 2011

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the CFTC) has adopted final rules implementing numerous general provisions and most core principles relating to derivatives clearing organizations (DCOs) at its October 18 open meeting

Amendments to effective date for swap regulation

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 21 2011

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the CFTC) has proposed to extend its earlier exemptive order that provides temporary relief from certain swap-related provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act) that would otherwise have taken effect on July 16 (the Order