Extension of No-Action Relief: Transaction-Level Requirements for Non-U.S. Swap Dealers.

Announcement of DMO review of all swaps reporting regulations, including opening of comment period. Overview of specific issues that DMO plans to address.

Relief from swap reporting and recordkeeping requirements applicable to Cantor Futures Exchange, L.P. (CX), Cantor Clearinghouse, L.P. and CX’s market participants

Relief from swap reporting and recordkeeping requirements applicable to North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc. (Nadex) and Nadex’s market participants

No-action relief that extends the relief provided in Letter No. 16-58 by permitting SEFs and DCMs to address clerical or operational errors that cause a swap to be rejected from clearing.

Guidance clarifying the expenses that must be included and those that can be reasonably excluded in a DCM’s or SEF’s calculation of projected operating costs.

The Division of Market Oversight is issuing a no-action letter that extends Letter No. 16-25 and provides relief from: (1) the requirement that a SEF obtain documents that are incorporated by reference in a confirmation issued under Commission Regulation 37.6(b) prior to issuing the confirmation; (2) the requirement that a SEF maintain such documents as records; and (3) the requirement that a SEF report terms contained in such documents that are confirmation data.

The CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight further extends time-limited, conditional masking no-action relief provided in CFTC Letters 16-03 and 16-33 permitting Part 45 and Part 46 reporting counterparties to mask legal entity identifiers, other enumerated identifiers and other identifying terms, and permitting Part 20 reporting entities to mask identifying information in certain enumerated jurisdictions, in each case subject to conditions.

Time-Limited No-Action Relief, until 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time on August 14, 2017, from compliance with the notice filing requirements of Commission Regulation 150.4(c), as effective February 14, 2017.

No-action relief to DCOs, giving additional six months to begin reporting continuation data on swaps accepted for clearing, subject to certain conditions. Additional relief to all reporting counterparties on 11 new data elements for a period of three months subject to certain conditions.