Verified facts (as reported by the sources below)
- CFTC Issues Interim Final Rule Excluding Certain Activity from the Definition of Swap — CFTC — press releases
- CFTC Chair Mike Selig Pushes New Crypto Platform Rules — TradingView
In brief
Derivatives market participants — including swap dealers, hedge funds and corporate hedgers — may need to reassess compliance obligations if activity they previously treated as swaps falls outside the new definition. Regulatory boundary changes like this can shift product structuring, reporting costs and counterparty exposure across interest rate, credit and commodity derivatives markets.
Primary sources
- CFTC — press releases: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9309-26
What are you watching now? When a regulator carves activity out of a key definition like 'swap,' do you think that generally reduces systemic risk, or does it create gaps that markets and regulators later have to address?
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Event: CFTC Carves Out Certain Activity from Swap Definition in Interim Final Rule
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Ruth K.
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On the question of whether carve-outs reduce systemic risk or create gaps: the strongest case for the carve-out is that a definition broad enough to sweep in activity that was never really a swap imposes reporting and clearing costs that push participants toward less transparent alternatives. The counterpoint I would want the thread to test is whether the excluded activity was ever the source of the risk regulators cared about, or whether it was a proxy. I am not certain how much of the excluded volume is material, so I would want the rule text and the public data on its size before drawing a conclusion.
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