CME Group Executive Chairman and President Terry Duffy will testify before the U.S. House Agricultural Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management on October 2, 2013, to discuss the protection of customer property in the futures industry. See: House Agriculture Committee Hearing Notice; CME Press Release.

The SEC Division of Trading and Markets issued a no-action letter to LCH.Clearnet Group Limited, the holding company of LCH.Clearnet SA ("LCH.C SA") in response to its request for relief from the registration requirements required in Exchange Act Section 17A(b)(1) ("National System for Clearance and Settlement of Securities Transactions") in connection to component transactions that are spun out of certain broad-based index credit default swaps ("CDS"), and LCH's Clearing Members by clearing security-based swaps through an unregistered clearing agency. The letter issued no-action relief to LCH

The CFTC Division of Market Oversight issued two time-limited no-action letters (Letters 13-55 and 13-56) to provide relief for temporarily registered swap execution facilities ("SEFs") and Reporting Counterparties from compliance with certain swap data reporting requirements under CFTC Rules Part 43 ("Real-Time Public Data Reporting") and Part 45 ("Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements"). CFTC No-Action Letter 13-55 postpones the date by which a SEF must be in compliance with certain CFTC Rules Part 43 and 45 swap data reporting obligations under CFTC Rules Part 43 and 45. Under

The National Futures Association ("NFA") issued a Notice to Members regarding the CFTC's recently adopted final rules which harmonize certain compliance obligations for CPOs of investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act that are now required to register as a CPO. The final rules provide that a CPO of a registered investment company ("RIC") may elect to comply with CFTC Part 4 ("CPOs and CTAs") disclosure, reporting, and recordkeeping requirements through substituted compliance with the applicable SEC rules for RICs, subject to certain conditions outlined in CFTC Rule 4.12

The National Futures Association ("NFA") notified all Members that the terms of certain elected Directors and of the members of the Nominating Committee will expire at the Board of Directors' 2014 regular Annual Meeting, and requested that the names of eligible persons to fill those positions be submitted to the Nominating Committee. The notice provides a list of FCM, IB, CPO, and CTA Board and Nominating Committee members whose terms will expire in February, as well as a nominating form to submit names of eligible persons to fill the vacancies. The following positions are open for member