Regulacje rynkowe · 12.05.1998
Over-the-Counter Derivatives
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``CFTC'' or ``Commission'') has been engaged in a comprehensive regulatory reform effort designed to update the agency's oversight of both exchange and off-exchange markets. As part of this reform effort, the Commission is reexamining its approach to the over-the-counter (``OTC'') derivatives market. OTC derivatives are contracts executed outside of the regulated exchange environment whose value depends on (or derives from) the value of an underlying asset, reference rate, or index. They are used by market participants to perform a wide variety of important risk management functions. The CFTC's last major regulatory actions involving OTC derivatives were regulatory exemptions for certain swaps and hybrid instruments adopted in January 1993. Since that time, the OTC derivatives market has grown dramatically in both volume and variety of products offered and has attracted many new end-users of varying degrees of sophistication. The market has also changed, with new products being developed, with some products becoming more standardized, and with systems for central execution or clearing being studied or proposed. The Commission hopes that the