CFTC Staff Letters

Registration Relief for Certain Persons.

Staff No-Action Relief: Preservation of the Regulatory Status Quo with Respect to Certain CEA Provisions That May Apply to FPA Section 201(f) Entities and Other Electric Cooperatives.

Staff No-Action Relief: Preservation of the Regulatory Status Quo with Respect to Certain CEA Provisions That May Apply to RTOs, ISOs, and/or Their Participants. (Extended by 13-05)

Division of Clearing and Risk staff issued a no action preserving the regulatory status quo with respect to swaps cleared by a DCO (and related) collateral which expires on the compliance date for Part 22 regulations, November 8, 2012.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) today announced an extension of time for compliance in order to provide additional time for market participants to coordinate on the communication of limits for give-ups and bunched orders for futures and swaps. This extension of time is intended to provide sufficient time to transition to fully compliant pre-trade screening no later than June 1, 2013. Additionally, DCR also announced the issuance of an extension of time for compliance from pre-trade screening requirements for those transactions executed on DCMs that do not have a system permitting FCMs to set pre-execution limits, until the earlier of the date on which the DCM implements such a system, or June 1, 2013.

Staff No-Action Relief: Temporary Relief for Persons Eligible for the Trade Option Exemption from the Requirements of §§ 32.3(b) and 32.3(c)(1), (3), (4) and (5) of the Commission’s Regulations.

Staff No-Action Relief: Temporary Relief from the Aggregation Requirements of the Commission’s Rule Regarding Position Limits for Futures and Swaps.

Staff No-Action Relief: Temporary Relief for Non-Clearing Member Swap Dealers from the Requirements of § 20.4 of the Commission’s Regulations Regarding Large Swaps Trader Reporting for Physical Commodities.

No-Action Relief from Rescission of Regulation 4.13(a)(4) and Amendments to Regulation 4.5.

Staff No-Action Relief: Temporary Relief for Clearing Members from the Requirements of Ownership-Level Reporting of § 20.4 of the Commission’s Regulations Regarding Large Swaps Trader Reporting for Physical Commodities.