The CFTC Market Participants Division extended temporary no-action relief to permit futures commission merchants to invest customer funds in securities that include an adjustable interest rate benchmarked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate.
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The CFTC Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight issued guidance on the practical implementation of no-action relief for FCM investments in money market funds.
The CFTC issued a final rule and separate interpretive and no-action letters in order to improve the protection of customer funds.
The CFTC Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight issued an interpretation of CFTC Rule 30.7(c) ("Treatment of Foreign Futures or Foreign Options Secured Amount"). CFTC Rule 30.7(c) provides that a futures commission merchant ("FCM") must deposit customer funds under the laws and regulations of the foreign jurisdiction that affords the greatest degree of protection to such funds, and provides further that an FCM may not waive any of the protections afforded to customer funds under the laws of that foreign jurisdiction. The interpretation in CFTC Letter 14-110 permits FCMs to deposit
The CFTC issued corrections to the final rules, which became effective on January 13, 2014, enhancing the protections afforded to customers and customer funds. The corrections amend erroneous cross-references found in three sections of the final rules and, in one section, insert language that was in the proposed rulemaking. Specifically, the CFTC corrected Rule 1.23 and Rule 30.7, which included erroneous cross-references to other CFTC Rules that do not exist or are incorrect. Additionally, in CFTC Rule 30.7(d)(1), the CFTC added language to the final rules that it stated was contained in the