Adaptation of Regulations To Incorporate Swaps-Records of Transactions

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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank Act" or "DFA") established a comprehensive new statutory framework for swaps and security-based swaps. The Dodd-Frank Act repeals some sections of the Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA" or "Act"), amends others, and adds a number of new provisions. The DFA also requires the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC" or "Commission") to promulgate a number of rules to implement the new framework. The Commission has proposed and finalized numerous rules to satisfy its obligations under the DFA. This final rulemaking makes certain conforming amendments to recordkeeping provisions of regulations 1.31 and 1.35(a) to integrate these regulations more fully with the new framework created by the Dodd-Frank Act.\1\ This final rulemaking requires futures commission merchants ("FCMs"), certain introducing brokers ("IBs"), retail foreign exchange dealers ("RFEDs") and certain other registrants that are members of designated contract markets ("DCMs") or swap execution facilities ("SEFs") to record all oral communications provided or received concerning quotes, solicitations, bids, offers, instructions, trading, and prices, t