The CPO of an exempt commodity pool requested relief permitting it to file for the pool a 15-month audited Annual Report, in order to facilitate the pool’s recent change in fiscal year.

Exemptive relief for a CPO from auditing a pool’s 2015 annual report.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO to permit the CPO to provide monthly account statements to participants within 45 days of the month end rather than quarterly account statement within 30 days of the quarter end pursuant to Commission regulation 4.7(b)(2).

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO to permit the CPO to provide monthly account statements to participants within 45 days of the month end rather than quarterly account statement within 30 days of the quarter end pursuant to Commission regulation 4.7(b)(2).

The purpose of this letter is to extend no-action relief previously granted by the Division of Clearing and Risk (Division) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) under No-Action Letter 14-135 that addressed certain challenges faced by market participants arising from the fact that other jurisdictions are still in the process of implementing mandatory clearing regimes.

Request on behalf of A, that A receive the relief provided in CFTC Staff Letter No. 15-44 with respect to the additional pools listed in Appendix A (the Additional Pools) for which A serves as their registered commodity pool operator. Specifically, with respect to the Additional Pools, you request relief from the requirement in Commission regulation 4.7(b)(2) for a CPO to distribute to pool participants quarterly account statements within 30 days of the end of the quarter.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO to permit the CPO to provide monthly account statements to a pool’s participants within 45 days of the month end rather than quarterly account statement within 30 days of the quarter end pursuant to Commission regulation 4.7(b)(2).

The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight granted exemptive relief pursuant to Commission regulations 4.12(a) and 140.93 to a commodity pool operator of several commodity pools operating pursuant to an exemption under Commission regulation 4.7 whose only participants are principals, senior employees, portfolio managers of the commodity pool operator, and trusts controlled by the principals of the commodity pool operator from the requirement to have an independent public accountant audit the financial statements in the commodity pool’s annual report for fiscal year 2013 and goin

No-action letter providing time-limited no-action relief from the requirements of the trade execution requirement in Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) section 2(h)(8) to Eligible Affiliate Counterparties, as defined in Commission regulation 50.52(a) of the Commission’s regulations, that engage in swap transactions with one another that involve a swap subject to the trade execution requirement.

No-action letter extending the time-limitation contained in an alternative compliance framework available to certain affiliated counterparties pursuant to Commission regulation 50.52(b)(4)(ii)-(iii).