The European Supervisory Authorities made final revisions to report on bilateral Margin Regulatory Technical Standards requirements in order to align with the Basel Committee and IOSCO international framework.
The House Financial Services Committee considered (i) testimony from federal banking regulators on a broad range of concerns and (ii) several proposed bills imposing additional requirements on financial institutions.
U.S. prudential regulators' proposed rule amendments governing margin requirements for uncleared swaps and security-based swaps were published in the Federal Register.
The Federal Reserve Board, Farm Credit Administration, Federal Housing Finance Agency and OCC proposed rule amendments governing margin requirements for uncleared swaps and security-based swaps.
A CFTC proposal amending uncleared swap margin regulations to exempt certain transactions from the European Stability Mechanism was published in the Federal Register.
The CFTC voted to propose amending its uncleared swap margin regulations to (i) extend the implementation date of initial margin requirements, and (ii) exempt certain transactions from uncleared margin requirements.
CFTC Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight Director Joshua B. Sterling highlighted a number of regulatory issues for swap dealers being considered at the CFTC.