Core Principles and Other Requirements for Swap Execution Facilities

Samenvatting

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") is adopting new rules, guidance, and acceptable practices to implement certain statutory provisions enacted by Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank Act"). The final rules, guidance, and acceptable practices, which apply to the registration and operation of a new type of regulated entity named a swap execution facility ("SEF"), implement the Dodd- Frank Act's new statutory framework that, among other requirements, adds a new section 5h to the Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA" or "Act") concerning the registration and operation of SEFs, and adds a new section 2(h)(8) to the CEA concerning the execution of swaps on SEFs.