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Position Limits
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Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
CME Group Issues Notice Regarding Position Limits and Accountability Levels
On November 4, CME Group issued Market Regulation Advisory Notice RA1518-5 (Notice) to provide regulatory guidance to market participants concerning CME Group Exchanges’ rules on position limits and exemptions, and…
Banking, Finance and Securities
Latest minutes from FCA MiFID II implementation roundtable – Handbook Guide to MiFID II planned
There has been published the minutes of a MiFID II implementation roundtable held at the FCA on 22 October 2015. Among the points raised in the minutes: the European Parliament…
Banking, Finance and Securities
CFTC issues new position limits proposal to make it easier for majority-owned affiliates (greater than 50% to 100% ownership) to disaggregate futures and swaps positions
On September 22, 2015, the CFTC issued a “supplemental” proposed rulemaking (the “2015 Proposal”) to revise its long-pending proposal on aggregation for position limit purposes published in November 2013 (the…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
CFTC Reopens Comment Period for Position Limits Proposals
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has re-opened the comment period on (1) its proposed rules establishing position limits on certain exempt and agricultural commodities and (2) its proposed amendments to…
Banking, Finance and Securities
CFTC Position Limits: Recent Congressional and Ongoing CFTC Developments
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) proposed rule on position limits continues to be a priority for energy market participants, as both Congress and the CFTC are actively reviewing this…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
CME Group Exchanges Revise Position Limit Rules
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange and Commodity Exchange have revised their position limit rules by removing provisions that formerly deemed a market participant…
Banking, Finance and Securities
CFTC imposes US$3M penalty for position limits violations due to failure to aggregate
On January 20, 2015, the CFTC issued a settlement order imposing a US$3 million civil monetary penalty on Olam International, Ltd. (“Olam International”) and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Olam Americas, Inc.…
Banking, Finance and Securities
CFTC Reopens Comment Period for Position Limits
In a notice published in the Federal Register earlier this week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) again reopened the period to comment on its proposed position limits and aggregation…
Antitrust, Competition and Trade
A break with the past: Treatment of precedent in the CFTC’s position limits re-proposal
The CFTC’s pending re-proposed speculative position limits and position aggregation rulemakings (the “Re-Proposal”), like its previous rules that were vacated by a federal district court, represent a radical departure from…
Banking, Finance and Securities
Market participants weigh in regarding CFTC’s re-proposed position limits rules
During an otherwise quiet Summer at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), agency staff hosted a public Roundtable where commercial end-users and other market participants could comment on the CFTC’s…