Advisory on Transition to Portal Filings of CFTC Form 304 Statement of Cash Positions for Unfixed-Price Cotton “On-Call” Reports Submitted on or After January 15, 2025

Advisory regarding use of AI in CFTC regulated markets.

Advisory regarding the clearing of options on spot commodity exchange traded funds (ETFs).

Advisory on Transition to Portal Filings for Registered Foreign Boards of Trade

The advisory reminds designated contract markets, derivatives clearing organizations, and swap execution facilities that have an affiliated intermediary or trading entity, as well as the affiliated intermediary or trading entities themselves, of their obligations to ensure compliance with existing statutory and regulatory requirements with this affiliate relationship in mind.

AO Advisory on Risks Associated with Expansion of DCO Clearing of Digital Assets

Advisory that encourages entities using prime brokerage arrangements that provide credit substitution on a centralized basis to examine the specific nature of their activities for the potential need to register as a derivatives clearing organization (DCO).

Advisory to non-U.S. swap dealers and non-U.S. major swap participants relying on substituted compliance under the terms of an applicable CFTC entity-level comparability determination with respect to the filing of an annual chief compliance officer report required pursuant to Commission regulation 3.3(f).

DOD is issuing an advisory setting forth instructions for notifying staff pursuant to Parts 43 and 45 when a swap execution facility, designated contract market, or reporting counterparty determines that it is unable to timely correct an error. In this advisory, staff is also highlighting a specific type of error concerning swaps that remain erroneously open at swap data repositories despite having been terminated.

The Division of Market Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is issuing this advisory to remind entities of the swap execution facility registration requirements set forth in the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission regulations and to highlight certain scenarios where entities may be required to register.