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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14-134 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DMO Regulation Parts: 43.3 Tags: Public, Real-Time, Reporting Issuance Date: Description: Time-limited no-action relief to allow Southwest Airlines and its counterparties additional time for public reporting of long-dated Brent and WTI crude oil swap and swaption contracts executed by or with Southwest Airlines. |
14-133 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 1.57 Tags: IB Issuance Date: Description: The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight issued a “no-action” position from compliance with certain requirements of Regulation 1.57(a)(1), such that a guaranteed introducing broker could open and carry customer accounts with other than its guaranteeing futures commission merchant. Among other things, customers would be eligible contract participants and it was anticipated that the ultimate owner of the guaranteeing futures commission merchant would be the ultimate owner of an interest in the guaranteed introducing broker. |
14-132 | Letter Type: Interpretative Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 23.701, 23.704 Tags: Segregated, Segregation Issuance Date: Description: Staff interpretation regarding notification of the right to segregation of initial margin in uncleared swap transactions and quarterly reporting under Commission Regulations 23.701 and 23.704 |
14-131 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 1.20, 22.2, 30.7 Tags: Cleared Swaps, Collateral, Customer, FCM, Foreign Future, Foreign Option, Funds, Segregated Issuance Date: Description: Extension of no-action relief from compliance with certain conditions associated with the receipt of customer funds by FCMs. |
14-130 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DMO Regulation Parts: 5, 37, 38, 40 Tags: Boards of Trade, Contract Market, DCM, Designation, SEF Issuance Date: Description: No-action relief for Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, to operate a not-for-profit market for event contracts, and to offer event contracts to U.S. persons. |
14-129 | Letter Type: Interpretative Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 1.17, 1.22, 22.2, 30.7 Tags: Cleared Swaps, Collateral, Customer, FCM, Foreign Future, Foreign Option, Funds, IB Issuance Date: Description: Staff issued an interpretation providing that a futures commission merchant (FCM) may credit a customer’s trading account for a margin payment upon the FCM’s initiation of a withdrawal from the customer’s bank account using the Automated Clearing House (ACH) payment processing system. The FCM also may consider such pending margin payments in computing its regulatory capital. |
14-128 | Letter Type: Exemption Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 3.55, 4.7(b)(3), 4.22 Tags: Annual Report, CPO, Exemptions, Pool Participant, Registration, Reporting Issuance Date: Description: Exemption from requirement that a pool’s financial statement be audited by independent public accountants. |
14-127 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 1.20, 1.26, 30.7 Tags: Customer, Foreign Future, Foreign Option, Funds, Segregated Issuance Date: Description: DSIO is issuing an extension of a previous no-action letter providing additional time for futures commission merchants (FCMs) to comply with Commission regulations requiring FCMs to obtain acknowledgement letters from certain depositories. DSIO will provide no-action relief until December 31, 2014. |
14-126 | Letter Type: No-Action Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: Tags: Issuance Date: Description: This letter replaces letter 14-69. CEA Section 4m(1) – Self-Executing Registration No-Action Relief for Delegating CPOs when Certain Requirements are Satisfied |
14-125 | Letter Type: Exemption Division: DSIO Regulation Parts: 4.7(b)(3), 4.22 Tags: Annual Report, CPO, Exemptions, Pool Participant, Reporting Issuance Date: Description: The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight granted the exemptive relief provided in CFTC Staff Letter 14-49 for additional commodity pools of that commodity pool operator that satisfied the conditions of that letter. |