Relief from swap reporting and recordkeeping requirements applicable to North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc. (Nadex) and Nadex’s market participants

No-action relief that extends the relief provided in Letter No. 16-58 by permitting SEFs and DCMs to address clerical or operational errors that cause a swap to be rejected from clearing.

Guidance clarifying the expenses that must be included and those that can be reasonably excluded in a DCM’s or SEF’s calculation of projected operating costs.

The Division of Market Oversight is issuing a no-action letter that extends Letter No. 16-25 and provides relief from: (1) the requirement that a SEF obtain documents that are incorporated by reference in a confirmation issued under Commission Regulation 37.6(b) prior to issuing the confirmation; (2) the requirement that a SEF maintain such documents as records; and (3) the requirement that a SEF report terms contained in such documents that are confirmation data.

The CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight further extends time-limited, conditional masking no-action relief provided in CFTC Letters 16-03 and 16-33 permitting Part 45 and Part 46 reporting counterparties to mask legal entity identifiers, other enumerated identifiers and other identifying terms, and permitting Part 20 reporting entities to mask identifying information in certain enumerated jurisdictions, in each case subject to conditions.

Time-Limited No-Action Relief, until 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on August 14, 2017, from compliance with the notice filing requirements of Commission Regulation 150.4(c), as effective February 14, 2017.

No-action relief to DCOs, giving additional six months to begin reporting continuation data on swaps accepted for clearing, subject to certain conditions. Additional relief to all reporting counterparties on 11 new data elements for a period of three months subject to certain conditions.

No-action letter extending time-limited no-action relief, providing that the Division of Market Oversight will not recommend that the Commission take enforcement action against any eligible affiliate counterparty that executes a swap transaction with another eligible affiliate counterparty without complying with section 2(h)(8) of the Act.

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 or Switzerland

The Division of Market Oversight extended the no-action relief granted in CFTC Letter 15-55 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.