CFTC Staff Letters

No action relief to an entity and its affiliates for their failure to register as CPOs of pools holding volume production payment instruments, which issue debt or debt-like instruments, and which use swaps to hedge commodity market risk and interest rate exposure.

The Division of Market Oversight (DMO) is issuing a no-action letter that provides additional time for reporting parties to comply with certain reporting requirements of the ownership and control final rule, which was published in the Federal Register on November 18, 2013.

Time-limited no-action relief for LCH.Clearnet Limited with regard to Regulations 1.20(g)(4) and 22.5.

Time-limited no-action relief for ICE Clear Europe Limited with regard to Regulation 1.20(g)(4).

Time-limited no-action relief for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. with regard to Regulations 1.20(d) and 22.5(a).

DSIO is issuing a 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 October 17, 2014.

Further extension of no-action relief granted by DMO on June 26, 2013 to SD and MSP reporting counterparties for cleared swaps from valuation data reporting required in section 45.4(b)(2)(ii) of the Commissions regulations.

Time-Limited Extension of the No-Action Relief Provided in CFTC Letter No. 13-41 regarding the reporting of identifying information under Parts 20, 45 and 46.

Extension of Time-Limited No-Action relief from compliance with certain conditions associated with the receipt of customer funds by FCMs.

Time-limited no-action relief for Korea Exchange, Inc. with regard to Section 5b(a) of the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission Regulations thereunder.