No-Action Relief with Respect to Certain Commodity Exchange Act Provisions That May Apply to Southwest Power Pool, Inc. and/or Its Participants

Conditional No-Action Relief with respect to Swaps Trading on Certain Multilateral Trading Facilities Overseen by Competent Authorities Designated by European Union Member States

Time-Limited No-Action Relief with respect to Swaps Trading on Certain Multilateral Trading Facilities Overseen by Competent Authorities Designated by European Union Member States

The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight and the Division of Market Oversight issued time-limited no-action relief with respect to some of the recordkeeping requirements under Regulation 1.35(a). The letter extends and expands the relief provided in CFTC Staff Letter No. 14-60 by relieving CTAs from the requirement to record oral communications under Regulation 1.35(a). The letter also provides relief for market participants from the requirement to link records of oral and written communications that lead to the execution of a transaction with any particular transaction.

CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight issues time-limited no-action relief from certain requirements of Part 45 and Part 46 of the Commission’s regulations, for Certain Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants established under the laws of Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan and Switzerland

Extension of No-Action Relief: Transaction-Level Requirements for Non-U.S. Swap Dealers

Extension of conditional time-limited no-action relief for Yieldbroker Pty Limited with regard to Section 5h(a)(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission Regulation 37.3(a)(1) until February 15, 2015.

The Division previously provided no-action relief for certain swaps required to be traded on a swap execution facility (SEF) or designated contract market (DCM) to the extent that those swaps were part of a package transaction. The Division has determined that further relief is appropriate to enable market participants to fully comply with the trade execution requirement with respect to swap components of certain categories of package transactions.

The Division of Market Oversight is extending the relief provided in CFTC Letter No. 14-26 for one year, until December 31, 2015. The letter provides no-action relief from the trade execution requirement of Commodity Exchange Act section 2(h)(8) to eligible affiliate counterparties, as defined in section 50.52(a) of the Commission’s regulations.

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.