CFTC Staff Letters
CFTC Staff Letters provides Letters from 2008 and later. For Letters published before 2008 visit the Letters Archive page.
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14-154 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 3.3 Tags: CCO Issuance Date: Description: Extension of time to furnish the 2014 annual report to the Commission. |
14-153 | Letter Type: Advisories Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 1.55, 3.3 Tags: CCO, FCM Issuance Date: Description: DSIO guidance to chief compliance officers of FCMs, SDs, and MSPs on how to comply with the requirement under Commission Regulation 3.3(e) to prepare an annual report. |
14-152 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 4.13 Tags: CPO, Exemption, Registration Issuance Date: Description: Subject to specific conditions, the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight granted the operators of issuers of insurance-linked securities no-action relief, such that an operator may be exempt from registration as a commodity pool operator pursuant to Regulation 4.13(a)(3) with respect to insurance-linked securities transactions in which an issuer engages. |
14-151 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DCR Regulation Parts: 5b(a) Tags: DCO, Registration Issuance Date: Description: Extension of time-limited no-action relief for OTC Clearing Hong Kong Limited with regard to Section 5b(a) of the Commodity Exchange Act and implementing regulations thereunder. |
14-150 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DCR Regulation Parts: 5b(a) Tags: DCO, Registration Issuance Date: Description: Extension of time-limited no-action relief for Korea Exchange, Inc. with regard to Section 5b(a) of the Commodity Exchange Act and implementing regulations thereunder. |
14-149 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DCR Regulation Parts: 5b(a) Tags: DCO, Registration Issuance Date: Description: Extension of time-limited no-action relief for Clearing Corporation of India Ltd. with regard to Section 5b(a) of the Commodity Exchange Act and implementing regulations thereunder. |
14-148 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DCR Regulation Parts: 5b(a) Tags: DCO, Registration Issuance Date: Description: Extension of time-limited no-action relief for ASX Clear (Futures) Pty Limited with regard to Section 5b(a) of the Commodity Exchange Act and implementing regulations thereunder. |
14-147 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DSIO, DMO Regulation Parts: 1.35 Tags: Cash, Forward Issuance Date: Description: The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight and the Division of Market Oversight issued time-limited no-action relief with respect to some of the recordkeeping requirements under Regulation 1.35(a). The letter extends and expands the relief provided in CFTC Staff Letter No. 14-60 by relieving CTAs from the requirement to record oral communications under Regulation 1.35(a). The letter also provides relief for market participants from the requirement to link records of oral and written communications that lead to the execution of a transaction with any particular transaction. |
14-146 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 4m(1) Tags: CPO, CTA, Interstate Issuance Date: Description: DSIO granted no action relief with respect to registration as a CPO for an entity acting as a directed trustee with respect to a commodity pool. |
14-145 | Letter Type: Exemption Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 4.22, 4.24 Tags: Disclosures, Pool Participant, Reporting Issuance Date: Description: The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight granted exemptive relief from the financial statement requirements of Commission regulations 4.22 and the disclosure requirements of Commission regulation 4.24(s) to the commodity pool operator (the “CPO”) of an insurance-linked securitization vehicle (the “ILS Vehicle”) with respect to the ILS Vehicle; provided, that the CPO satisfies certain conditions for relief relating to the management of the ILS Vehicle, the disclosure of additional information concerning the ILS Vehicle, and the calculation of the net asset value of the ILS Vehicle. |