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US Commodity Futures Trading Commission Final Rules for System Safeguards for Japan Uncleared Swap Margin Rules
09/08/2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved a final rule instituting system safeguards testing requirements for designated contract markets, swap execution facilities, swap data repositories and derivatives clearing organizations. In addition, the CFTC also issued a comparability determination for certain of Japan’s margin requirements for uncleared swaps. The CFTC’s determination would permit substituted compliance with Japan’s uncleared swap margin rules in place of the uncleared swap margin provisions of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act.
View full text of CFTC final rule on system safeguards testing requirements.
View full text CFTC comparability determination.
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