CFTC Staff Letters

This relief revises CFTC Staff No-Action Letter 17-27 with respect to the error correction process for cleared erroneous swaps.

No-action relief granted to a swap dealer concerning the calculation of initial margin under Commission regulation 23.154.

No-action relief from the swap clearing requirement for amendments to legacy uncleared swaps to facilitate orderly transition from inter-bank offered rates to alternative risk-free rates.

No-action relief from the trade execution requirement to facilitate an orderly transition from the inter-bank offered rates to alternative risk-free rates.

No-action relief to facilitate an orderly transition of swaps from inter-bank offered rates to alternative benchmarks.

Staff Time-Limited No-Action Position Regarding Application of Minimum Transfer Amount under the Uncleared Margin Rules

Revised no-action relief for the European Stability Mechanism from the swap clearing requirement in Section 2(h)(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission Regulations 50.2 and 50.4.

Revised no-action position with respect to uncleared swaps with the European Stability Mechanism under Commission Regulations 23.150-159, 23.161.

No-action relief was granted to an entity from the statutory disqualification condition of CFTC Staff Letter No. 12-70 with repsect to its affiliate support activities.

No-action relief was granted to an entity from the requirement to register as a CPO with respect to a commodity pool; provided that, the entity delegates its CPO responsibilities for that pool to a registered CPO, subject to certain conditions.