The CPO of two commodity pools operating pursuant to an exemption under Regulation 4.7 requested exemptive relief from the annual report requirement in Regulation 4.7(b)(3) to permit it to file an Annual Report for the pools for the period from their inception of trading, July 19, 2013, to December 31, 2014. The CPO submitted signed subscription documents from all seven participants, acknowledging the terms of the Pools’ offering memorandum, which included the CPO’s intent to file and distribute an 18-month Annual Report for the Pools’ first fiscal year.

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.

Exemption from requirement that a pool’s financial statement be audited by independent public accountants.

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.

This letter replaces letter 14-69. CEA Section 4m(1) – Self-Executing Registration No-Action Relief for Delegating CPOs when Certain Requirements are Satisfied

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.

No-action relief from compliance with certain terms of required Regulation 30.7(c).

Conditional no-action relief with respect to swaps trading on certain financial markets that are licensed in Australia and overseen by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC)

The Division provided exemptive relief from certain provisions of Regulations 4.7(b) and 4.13(a)(3) that, among other things, restrict marketing to the public. This letter harmonizes these Commission regulations with Rule 506(c) of Regulation D and Rule 144A, which, as amended by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, permit general solicitation or general advertising, subject to specific conditions.

DSIO provided a letter that exempts commodity pool operators that are registered, but only operate pools pursuant to Commission Regulations 4.5 or 4.13(a)(3), from reporting on Form CPO-PQR.