DOD is issuing an advisory setting forth instructions for notifying staff pursuant to Parts 43 and 45 when a swap execution facility, designated contract market, or reporting counterparty determines that it is unable to timely correct an error. In this advisory, staff is also highlighting a specific type of error concerning swaps that remain erroneously open at swap data repositories despite having been terminated.

Granting time-limited no-action relief to [“A”] permitting its Irish bank subsidiary, [“B”], to act as reporting counterparty for [“B”]’s swaps with U.S. persons that are not swap dealers (“SDs”) or major swap participants (“MSPs”), notwithstanding the allocation of reporting responsibility set forth in Commission Regulation 45.8(e).