commodity futures trading commission act

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission Clarifies Which Provisions Of The Dodd-Frank Act Are Now Effective; Delays Effective Date Of Others.

In an action that will affect every participant in the over-the-counter swaps market, as well as futures exchanges and derivatives clearing organizati...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2011, January 2011

• Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC'') is adopting rules to implement the Commodity Exchange Act (``CEA'' or ``Act'') relating to . These sections of the CEA were added by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act''). The rules being adopted apply to for swap data repositories, derivatives clearing organizations, designated contract markets, swap execution facilities, swap dealers, major swap participants, and swap counterparties who are neither swap dealers nor major swap participants. The recordkeeping and reporting requirements of this rule further the goals of the Dodd-Frank Act to reduce systemic risk, increase tra...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 2136, January 13, 2012
• Rules and Regulations
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission Clarifies Which Provisions Of The Dodd-Frank Act Are Now Effective; Delays Effective Date Of Others (January 2012).

In an action that will affect virtually all participants in the over-the-counter swaps market, as well as futures exchanges and derivatives clearing o...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2012, January 2012

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission Clarifies Which Provisions Of The Dodd-Frank Act Are Now Effective; Delays Effective Date Of Others (January 2012)

In an action that will affect virtually all participants in the over-the-counter swaps market, as well as futures exchanges and derivatives clearing o...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission Clarifies Which Provisions Of The Dodd-Frank Act Are Now Effective; Delays Effective Date Of Others

In an action that will affect every participant in the over-the-counter swaps market, as well as futures exchanges and derivatives clearing organizati...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• United States Law Articles in English

• 7 USC 2 - Sec. 2. Jurisdiction of Commission; liability of principal for act of agent; Commodity Futures Trading Commission; transaction in interstate commerce

• U.S. Code - Title 7: Agriculture

• Philip Mcbride Johnson: Made Cftc Master of Its Own Domain

Philip McBride Johnson says, without a doubt, his greatest economic contribution to the history of futures was helping the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) win exclusive regulatory jurisdiction in commodities trading -- in which he played the leading role in securing by drafting key jurisdictional provisions of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974 that made the CFTC the sole regulator of the US futures industry. As outside counsel to the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) he was directed to make every effort to assure that CFTC would be the only exclusive regulator of the futures markets and that its jurisdiction covered everything that is traded for future delivery: meaning, the definition of commodity had to be expanded from farm products to every conceivable obj...

• Futures; Chicago
• Vol. 36 Nbr. 14, October 2007

• Senators Press Cftc to Curb Oil Speculation

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senators hoping to rein in high oil and gasoline prices slammed the futures market regulator on Thursday [May 26] for not moving faster to crack down on out-of-control speculators in commodity markets. At a meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler refused to spell out when the agency would act on a rule to limit the number of contracts big market players can hold in oil and other commodities.

• Reuters Hedgeworld
• May 28, 2011

• Registration of Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is adopting regulations under the Commodity Exchange Act (Act or CEA) that establish the process for the registration of swap dealers (SDs) and major swap participants (MSPs, and collectively with SDs, Swaps Entities) and that require Swaps Entities to become and remain members of a registered futures association (RFA). The Commission is also adopting regulations that define an ``associated person'' of an SD or MSP as a natural person and that implement the prohibition on a Swaps Entity permitting an associated person who is statutorily disqualified from registration from effecting or being involved in effecting swaps on behalf of the Swaps Entity. The Commission is adopting these regulations in accordance with section 4s of ...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 2613, January 19, 2012
• Rules and Regulations
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission

• Privacy Act of 1974 System of Records Notice

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is providing notice that it is retiring one system of records notice, CFTC-7, Formal Employment Discrimination Complaint and Reasonable Accommodation Files, from its inventory of record systems because the relevant records are covered by existing government-wide system notices.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 14507, March 12, 2012
• Notices
• Commodity Futures Trading Commission