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.
An investment adviser settled charges with the SEC for failing to timely disclose the adviser's "control" purpose, with respect to an issuer whose shares it had acquired for the account of a hedge fund that it managed.
The CFTC withdrew its original proposal and newly proposed to allow an FCM, subject to certain conditions, to treat separate accounts of a single beneficial owner as if they were owned by different persons, for purposes of margin withdrawals from the separate accounts.