Treasury Issues Recommendations on Capital Markets Regulatory Reform
As part of its ongoing response to President Trump’s executive order outlining core principles for financial regulation, the Treasury Department ...
Tag: Swaps
ABA Provides Insights on Capital Markets Reform to Treasury
ABA staff recently met with officials at the Treasury Department, which is in the process of issuing recommendations related to ...
Fed, OCC Issue Transition Period Guidance on Variation Margin
As the ABA Securities Association and other trade groups have urged, the Federal Reserve and the OCC today issued guidance ...
ABA, Groups Seek Forbearance on Variation Margin Rule
With a March 1 compliance deadline looming for when swap dealers and major swap participants must exchange variation margin for ...
House Commodities Bill Includes ABA-Backed Provisions
The House yesterday voted 239-182 to pass the Commodity End-User Relief Act that would reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
CFTC Postpones Expiration of Current De Minimis Threshold
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order delaying the termination date of the phase-in period of the swap ...
OCC Proposes Limits on Qualified Financial Contracts
The OCC today proposed a rule that would establish restrictions on qualified financial contracts -- such as derivative transactions, repurchase ...
Uncleared Swap Margin Exemptions Finalized for Small Banks and End Users
The federal banking agencies are issuing a final rule affirming that swaps and security-based swaps that are not cleared through ...
ABA: Margin Rules Implementation Must Align with EU Timeline
ABA and the ABA Securities Association today wrote to U.S. regulators urging them to re-align their timeline for implementing the ...
Fed Proposes Limits on Qualified Financial Contracts
The Federal Reserve today proposed a rule that would establish restrictions on qualified financial contracts -- such as derivative transactions, ...
