Investment of Customer Funds and Record of Investments

Résumé

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission") is amending its regulations regarding investment of customer funds and related recordkeeping requirements. The amendments address standards for investing in instruments with certain features, requirements for adjustable rate securities, concentration limits on reverse repurchase agreements ("reverse repos"), transactions by futures commission merchants ("FCMs") that are also registered as securities broker- dealers ("FCM/BDs"), rating standards and registration requirement for money market mutual funds ("MMMFs"), the auditability standard for investment records, and certain technical changes. Among those technical changes is an amendment to the Commission's recordkeeping rules in connection with repurchase agreements ("repos") and proposed transactions by FCM/BDs.