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Regulacje rynkowe · 10.08.2001

A New Regulatory Framework for Trading Facilities, Intermediaries and Clearing Organizations

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is promulgating final rules to implement those provisions of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) relating to trading facilities. The CFMA profoundly altered federal regulation of commodity futures and option markets. The new statutory framework establishes two categories of markets subject to Commission regulatory oversight, designated contract markets and registered derivatives transaction execution facilities, and two categories of exempt markets, exempt boards of trade and exempt commercial markets. These rules establish administrative procedures necessary to implement the CFMA, interpret certain of the CFMA's provisions and provide guidance on compliance with various of its requirements. In addition, the Commission, under its exemptive authority, in a limited number of instances is providing relief from, or greater flexibility than, the CFMA's provisions. Rules implementing the CFMA relating to clearing organizations were recently proposed in a separate notice of proposed rulemaking (66 FR 24308 (May 14, 2001)), and rules pertaining to intermediaries which were previously withdrawn will be repropos

Source: Federal Register — CFTCOpen original release →