Commodities

Overhauling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s leadership structure, improving regulatory coordination and repealing the Volcker Rule are among the items included in a broad package of Dodd-Frank tweaks suggested by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Read on to learn about the chamber’s new “Fix, Add, Replace Agenda” for financial reform. Read on »

Commodity Futures Trading Commission General Counsel Dan Berkovitz will depart the agency at the end of March, ending a 30-year career in the federal government. Berkovitz served as the CFTC’s general counsel since June 2009, and has advised the commission on a variety of landmark legislative and regulatory initiatives including the CFTC’s implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act. Read on to learn about his work. Read on »

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission extended the comment period for proposed rules intended to enhance protections for customers and strengthen the safeguards surrounding the holding of money, securities and other property deposited by customers with futures commission merchants and derivatives clearing organizations. The agency said it extended the comment period to give industry participants additional time to evaluate the rule’s costs and benefits and propose alternative measures to provide incr... Read on »

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved a final rule extending debated swaps recordkeeping requirements to the futures market. As proposed, the rule would have required industry participants to record and retain oral communications that lead to the execution of a transaction in a commodity interest or a cash commodity. Read on to learn what changes the CFTC made in the final rule. Read on »

Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the retiring co-architect of the Dodd-Frank Act, proposed legislation that would merge the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission to create one regulator that oversees the securities, derivatives, options, futures and other markets. Read on »

The Securities and Exchange Commission pursued a “robust, investor-focused” rulemaking agenda and maintained an aggressive enforcement posture in FY 2012, according to the agency’s recently released annual report. Read on to learn about the SEC’s 2013 rulemaking goals and some of the challenges the regulator faces. Read on »

A deeply divided Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted to move forward with an appeal of a federal district court’s decision vacating the agency’s position limits rule. Read on to learn about the warning one CFTC commissioner had for industry participants who may attempt to “litigate regulators to death.” Read on »

A group of Republican lawmakers asked the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to enumerate the costs associated with promulgating and defending a highly controversial rule that was later vacated by a federal court. The lawmakers said the court’s ruling highlights the agency’s “inability to adhere to the law.” Read on »

A federal judge struck down the CFTC’s position limits rule just days before it was scheduled to go into effect. Read on to learn about the ruling and why the court said the CFTC was wrong when it determined that Dodd-Frank unambiguously stripped the agency of all discretion not to impose position limits. Read on »

Hailed by some, vilified by others, the Dodd-Frank Act turns two on July 21. In a three-part series, Dodd Frank Update takes an in-depth look at the act, where we’ve been and where we’re going. Read on to learn about regulators’ early efforts to implement key provisions of the act, including the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Read on »