Trade associations and financial groups responded to a CFTC proposal that would further define requirements on recovery and wind-down plans prepared by derivatives clearing organizations.
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The comment deadline was officially set for the SEC's proposed (i) amendments to current requirements on clearing agencies' risk-based margin systems and (ii) new rule on the content of clearing agencies' recovery and wind-down plans. The July 17, 2023 comment deadline was published in the Federal Register.
In response to an Advance Noticed of Proposed Rulemaking that would add "an extra layer of loss-absorbing capacity" in resolving certain large banking organizations, SIFMA said that it is both unnecessary and inappropriate to extend the enhanced resolution requirements to non global systemically important banking organizations whose primary operations are as retail broker-dealers.
Senior officials from the Bank of England, the FDIC, the CFTC, the SEC and the Federal Reserve Board reviewed joint progress on central counterparty resolution issues and on the development of detailed operational planning to support prototype resolution strategies for UK and U.S. CCPs.
In a joint report, the Financial Services Forum, the Institute of International Finance and ISDA detailed how financial markets and participants provided "vital" support to the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic.