The US Government shutdown, combined with industry pressure, leads the CFTC to be more flexible with SEFs. After previously giving SEFs a month extension to November 1 before a lot of the SEF rules kick in, the CFTC has now granted the SEFs an additional month (to November 29) before certain of their enforcement responsibilities…
Read moreCFTC gives Yieldbroker until November 1 to finalize its SEF application. While US financial regulators promised that they were going to be completely rigid and strict with the planned implementation of Dodd-Frank Act requirements such as that of SEFs, the exceptions keep coming. First, we learned that the CFTC is delaying enforcement of many of…
Read moreHowever the CFTC denies the six month full implementation delay requested by the securities industry. Despite warnings by many securities industry firms that they and their clients are not fully ready to move swaps from over-the-counter platforms to SEFs, the CFTC apparently will not delay the October 2 deadline (i.e. this Wednesday) for SEF implementation.…
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