Banking & Credit in United States

What Changed

The final rule introduces the following substantive amendments: *Exceptions for Swaps Intended to be Cleared (ITBC Swaps)** Swap dealers and major swap participants are exempted from certain External Business Conduct Standards and swap trading relationship documentation requirements when executing swaps that are intended by the parties to be cleared contemporaneously with execution. Such swaps are deemed void if rejected from clearing. *Prime Broker Arrangement Exemptions** Swaps executed purs

What You Need To Do

• *Immediate Actions (Pre-Implementation)
• *Implementation Actions (Upon Effective Date)
• trade disclosure systems to remove PTMMM generation and delivery requirements
• based operations, review implications of superseded Staff Letter No
• *Ongoing Compliance

Key Dates

References

• [1] cftc.gov
• [2] cftc.gov
• [3] isda.org
• [4] gibsondunn.com
• [5] sifma.org
• [6] skadden.com