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Commodity Futures Trading Commission Issues No Action Letters for Erroneous Swap Trades and Swap Trade Confirmations
04/22/2015The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight and the Division of Clearing and Risk issued two no-action letters providing certain time-limited relief to swap execution facilities and designated contract markets. CFTC Staff Letter 15-24 provides time-limited relief from certain CFTC regulations to permit SEFs and DCMs to correct clerical or operational errors that may cause a swap to be rejected for clearing and permits counterparties to resubmit the trade with the correct terms. The no-action letter also permits SEFs and DCMs to correct clerical or operational errors revealed after a swap has been cleared. It allows counterparties to execute a trade to offset the cleared trade and submit a new trade with the correct terms. The relief provided is set to expire on June 15, 2016.
CFTC Staff Letter 15-25 extends the time period for relief previously provided in No-Action Letter 14-108, from September 30, 2015 to March 31, 2016, with certain modifications. This Confirmation No-Action Letter provides relief to SEFs from certain requirements concerning trade confirmations required from SEFs for non-cleared swaps. Specifically, it provides relief to SEFs from the requirement to obtain documents that are incorporated by reference in a trade confirmation issued by a SEF, prior to issuing the confirmation. Additionally, the letter relieves SEFs from the requirement to preserve such documents as records.
View CFTC Staff Letter 15-24.
View CFTC Staff Letter 15-25.
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