CFTC to Hold Public Meeting on Proposed Rules Under the Dodd-Frank Act
Co-authored by Vanessa L. Friedman
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced that it will hold a public meeting on October 1 regarding the first series of rule proposals pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. EDT in the CFTC Hearing Room at 1155 21st Street NW, Washington, D.C. The CFTC will consider proposed rules relating to: (1) financial resource standards for systemically important central counterparties, and (2) governance and conflicts of interest standards for designated clearing organizations, designated contract markets and swap execution facilities. The CFTC will also consider an interim final rule regarding the timing of reporting pre-enactment unexpired swaps to a swap repository or the CFTC.
The CFTC press release about the meeting is available here, and the Federal Register release is available here.
