The OCC, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, Farm Credit Association, and Federal Housing Finance Agency jointly adopted an interim final rule to delay the compliance dates for initial margin requirements.
The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs considered testimony on the development and testing of a U.S. central bank digital currency pilot program.
The CFTC voted unanimously to adopt amendments to the exception from clearing for swaps between affiliates, in effect codifying previously existing no-action relief.
The FDIC adopted a series of amendments to its swap margin rules, including for LIBOR transition, inter-affiliate initial margin and the extension of compliance dates.
A Federal Reserve working group, made up of government and payments industry experts, developed a uniform fraud classification system to address fraud involving Automated Clearing House, wire, and check payments.
The CFTC voted to adopt an interim final rule to delay the implementation of "Phase Five" initial margin requirements for uncleared derivatives from September 1, 2020 to September 1, 2021.
The CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee considered subcommittee recommendations for improving the scoping and implementation of initial margin requirements for uncleared swaps.
The SEC provided conditional relief from certain Exchange Act credit-arranging prohibitions to broker-dealers designated as agents for the Federal Reserve Board's Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility.
The CFTC Divisions of Market Oversight, Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight, and Clearing and Risk warned regulated entities "to prepare for the possibility that certain contracts may continue to experience extreme market volatility, low liquidity and possibly negative pricing."
In a new staff report on the nexus between central counterparties and clearing member banks, the Bank for International Settlements emphasized the need for central banks to evaluate the two entity types collectively.
A CFTC final rule to exempt certain transactions with the European Stability Mechanism from uncleared swap margin requirements was published in the Federal Register.
In its 2019 annual margin survey, ISDA found that the initial margin collected for non-cleared derivatives trades by the 20 largest market participants rose by ten percent over the previous year.
A final rule amendment to extend the compliance phase-in schedule for initial margin requirements for uncleared swaps was published in the Federal Register.
Industry associations urged the Basel Committee on Bank Supervision and IOSCO to publicly recommend an extension of the implementation deadlines for the Phase 5 and Phase 6 initial margin requirements for uncleared derivatives.
The CFPB issued its semi-annual report to Congress. The report highlighted significant financial product and service issues consumers faced between April 1, 2019 and September 30, 2019.
The NYSE proposed new fees and charges for providing wireless connectivity services in order to transport selected NYSE and affiliate market data to market participants.
On December 6, 2019, experts testified before the House Financial Services Committee on the impact of artificial intelligence on investing, the financial services workforce, and compliance and risk management.
