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.

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

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.

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 an exemptive letter that enables commodity pool operators to use additional recordkeepers beyond those enumerated in Commission Regulations 4.7(b)(4) and 4.23(c).

The Division issued an interpretation of CEA Section 1a(10) and Regulation 4.10(d), both of which define the term “commodity pool,” which will permit wholly owned subsidiaries of a single life insurance company to contribute their general account assets to a single vehicle formed by them, and will permit the vehicle to invest directly or indirectly in commodity interests without being deemed a commodity pool.

No-action letter permitting, subject to certain conditions, commodity pool operators of certain commodity pools that are non-registered investment companies (“Parent Pools”) that use wholly-owned trading subsidiaries to trade in commodity interests (“Trading Subsidiaries”) to consolidate the annual reports required to be submitted to the National Futures Association (“NFA”) pursuant to Commission regulation 4.7(b) or 4.22(c), as applicable, and the CPO-PQR reports required to be submitted to NFA pursuant to Commission regulation 4.27(c) for the Trading Subsidiaries with those of their Paren

Subject to specific conditions, the Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight granted the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and the Federal National Mortgage Association no-action relief, such that either entity may be exempt from registration as a commodity pool operator pursuant to Regulation 4.13(a)(3) with respect to its operation of a mortgage credit risk sharing initiative described therein.

Two families, whose patriarchs have been business partners of a large, publicly traded U.S. retailer since the company’s founding over forty years ago, requested no-action relief from CPO registration on behalf of the families, the S corporation founded solely to provide services to the families, and the S corporation’s employees, with regard to funds operated by the families that may invest in commodity interests.

Exemption permitting CPO to file a single Annual Report for the period from inception of trading on September 1, 2013 through the end of fiscal year 2014.