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Regulacje rynkowe · 12.04.2004

Futures Market Self-Regulation

The Commodity Exchange Act (the "Act"),\1\ through Core Principles added by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 ("CFMA") \2\ and otherwise, imposes upon trading facilities (designated contract markets or "DCMs" and derivatives transaction execution facilities or "DTEFs"), upon registered futures associations ("RFAs"),\3\ and upon clearinghouses (derivatives clearing organizations or "DCOs") certain self-regulatory obligations with respect to futures commission merchants ("FCMs") that are members of such DCMs, DTEFs, RFAs, and DCOs (together, "self- regulatory organizations" or "SROs"). In order to avoid duplicative supervisory burdens upon FCMs that are members of more than one SRO, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the "Commission" or "CFTC") permits SROs to enter into voluntary, cooperative agreements to both allocate certain supervisory responsibilities among themselves so that each FCM has a single designated self-regulatory organization ("DSRO") and to share relevant financial and risk information among themselves. Under such an agreement, each DSRO is primarily responsible for conducting periodic examinations of firms assigned to it, and the other SROs rel

Source: Federal Register — CFTCOpen original release →