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The American Bankers Association joined several financial trade organizations in a letter to the prudential regulators earlier this week calling on them to modify the margin rules for non-cleared swaps and security-based swaps to better align them with international standards.

Economy

ABA today commented on a joint proposed rulemaking issued by the OCC, Federal Reserve and FDIC, Farm Credit Administration and the Federal Housing Finance Administration that would align the agencies’ margin rules with restrictions on qualified financial contracts that took effect last year.

Compliance and Risk

As the ABA Securities Association and other trade groups have urged, the Federal Reserve and the OCC today issued guidance on how examiners will review compliance with the requirement for when swap dealers and major swap participants must exchange variation margin for swaps not cleared through a central counterparty.

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