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CFTC Announces Roundtable to Discuss Dodd-Frank End User Issues

The CFTC announced that a public roundtable is scheduled for April 3, 2014, to discuss issues concerning end users.

The roundtable will cover the following issues:

  • the obligations of end users under CFTC Rule 1.35 ("Records of Commodity, Interest and Related Cash or Forward Transactions") concerning recordkeeping for commodity interest and related cash or forward transactions;
  • the appropriate regulatory treatment of forward contracts with embedded volumetric optionality; and
  • the appropriate regulatory treatment for purposes of the $25 million ("special entity") de minimis threshold for swap dealing to government-owned electric utilities.

See: CFTC Press Release.

Tags

Regulated Activities
Suitability and Consumer Protection
Sub-Activity
Special Entity
Regulated Entities
Traders / Investors / Counterparties
Sub-Entity
Special Entities
Regulated Products
Swaps / SBS
Body of Law
CEA Regulation
Jurisdiction
US - Federal
Organization
CFTC, NFA, CFTC Markets
Sub-Author
CFTC