CFTC Staff Letters

Staff Advisory that reminds: (1) futures commission merchants (FCMs) and introducing brokers (IBs) of their obligations to report suspicious activities as required by a regulation issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network under the Bank Secrecy Act; and (2) FCMs, IBs and all other persons registered or required to be registered with the Commission to comply with the economic sanctions programs imposed against countries and groups of individuals that appear at 31 C.F.R. Chapter V. Advisory.

Exemptive relief for a CPO from auditing a pool’s 2015 annual report.

Exemptive relief for a CPO from auditing a pool’s 2015 annual report.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO to permit the CPO to provide monthly account statements to participants within 45 days of the month end rather than quarterly account statement within 30 days of the quarter end pursuant to Commission regulation 4.7(b)(2).

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO to permit the CPO to provide monthly account statements to participants within 45 days of the month end rather than quarterly account statement within 30 days of the quarter end pursuant to Commission regulation 4.7(b)(2).

A CPO requested exemptive relief from the annual report requirement in Regulation 4.7(b)(3), to allow it to file an annual report for its exempt pool for the period from December 1, 2015, the date the pool began trading, to December 31, 2016. DSIO granted relief conditioned upon the future filing and distribution of a certified Annual Report for the period from December 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016.

A CPO requested exemptive relief from the annual report requirement in Regulation 4.7(b)(3), to allow it to file an annual report for its exempt pool for the period from November 10, 2015, the date the pool began trading, to December 31, 2016. DSIO granted relief conditioned upon the future filing and distribution of a certified Annual Report for the period from November 10, 2015 to December 31, 2016.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO of a pool that permanently ceased trading in March 2016 from providing an annual report for fiscal year 2015; provided, that the CPO provide an annual report that covers the period from January 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016. The CPO has provided a waiver from the lone outside participant of the pool.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO of pools that began operations at the end of September 2015 from providing annual reports for fiscal year 2015; provided, that the CPO provide an annual report that covers the period from the beginning of operations to the end of fiscal year 2016 after the end of fiscal year 2016. The CPO has provided waivers from all participants of the pools.

Exemptive relief granted to a CPO of a fund complex from: (1) Filing with NFA and distributing to the participants of the Intermediate Fund an audited annual report of the Feeder Fund; and (2) Filing with NFA Form CPO-PQR for the Intermediate Fund. This relief allows the CPO to prepare one audited annual report and one CPO-PQR at the Feeder Fund-level for both the Feeder Fund and the Intermediate Fund.