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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The FTC and CFPB released agency-specific action statements on increasing tech capacity, including actively hiring technologists, to "help enforce the laws on the book and design remedies that work for consumers, workers, small businesses, and others in the digital era."
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.
In an address before the Council of Institutional Investors, SEC Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda underscored the importance of adhering to statutory limits in the exercise of administrative power and enforcement, and called for a regulatory framework that provides clear, predictable guidelines for market participants.