On June 12, the National Futures Association (NFA) amended several of its rules and interpretive notices to incorporate expressly supervision requirements for NFA members’ swaps activities. NFA Compliance Rule 2-9(a), as amended, will apply specifically to futures commission merchant (FCM), introducing brokers (IB), commodity pool operator (CPO) and commodity trading advisor (CTA) members. New NFA Compliance Rule 2-9(d) will require swap dealer (SD) members to diligently supervise the swaps activities of their employees and agents. Finally, as part of the overhaul to the supervision requirements, the NFA adopted a new interpretive notice titled, NFA Compliance Rule 2-9(d): Supervision Requirements for Swap Dealer and Major Swap Participant Members.
The amendments and interpretive notice will become effective September 30. A complete copy of the March 8 submission letter detailing the amendments is available here.