The Fixed Income Clearing Corporation proposed rule amendments that are intended to make effective the SEC's recent adoption of requirements that members of a central clearing organization for U.S. government securities clear certain repo and cash market trades in U.S. governments.
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NFA questioned the "proposed methodology" of a CFTC proposal that would apply to direct clearing of transactions by customers not intermediated through an FCM.
CFTC Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger asserted that the Basel III Endgame Proposal, if adopted, would have a significant negative impact on derivatives markets.
The SEC adopted a rule that any SEC-registered central clearing agency that provides central clearing of U.S. Treasury securities ("USTs") shall require its members to centrally clear (i) most repurchase and reverse repurchase transactions in USTs to which it is a counterparty and (ii) certain cash market purchases and sales of USTs.
FINRA settled charges with four firms for misrepresentations and supervision failures on their "fully paid securities lending" programs.