Regulacje rynkowe · 19.03.2001
Privacy of Customer Information
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission requests comment on proposed privacy rules published under section 5g of the Commodity Exchange Act which directs the Commission to prescribe regulations under Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Title V requires certain federal agencies to adopt rules implementing notice requirements and restrictions on the ability of certain financial institutions to disclose nonpublic personal information about consumers to nonaffiliated third parties. Under section 503, a financial institution must provide its customers with a notice of its privacy policies and practices, and must not disclose nonpublic personal information about a consumer to nonaffiliated third parties unless the institution provides certain information to the consumer and the consumer has not elected to opt out of the disclosure. Section 505 further requires certain federal agencies to establish for financial institutions appropriate standards to protect customer information. The proposed rules implement these requirements of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act with respect to futures commission merchants, commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators and introducing brokers that are