The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will pursue a reform of swaps trading rules “to fix flawed implementation of regulatory reform,” Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo told a global forum for derivatives markets in Switzerland last week.
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House Votes to Dismantle Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill that would eliminate or revamp much of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was signed into law by then-President Obama after the Great Recession.
FERC Seeks 15.2% Increase, CFTC 12.6% in Trump’s FY2018 Budget; Dodd-Frank Revamped
Two federal regulatory agencies key to the natural gas and oil industry, FERC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), are seeking double-digit percentage increases to their appropriations in the Trump administration’s $4.1 trillion budget proposal.
Trump Begins Effort to Revamp Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform
President Trump on Friday signed a pair of directives meant to begin rolling back provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was adopted by the Obama administration in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
Trump ‘Clearly’ Favors E&P, Less Regulatory Oversight, Say Experts
President-elect Donald J. Trump, set to take office following a stunning upset of Hillary Clinton, is poised to sweep away renewable energy initiatives and stringent oversight launched by the Obama administration and enact an all-of-the-above energy strategy, experts said Wednesday.
CFTC Offers No-Action Relief on ‘Swap Dealer’ Definition Exceptions
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight in a letter released Friday said it would provide no-action relief from certain requirements in the exception from the definition of the term "swap dealer," a decision that excludes utility operations-related swaps from the calculation of the de minimis threshold.
Dodd-Frank Disrupting Energy Hedging, Elevating Risks, Says Report
Congress took away financial tools that energy producers and consumers use to circumvent energy price volatility when it passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and it needs to make changes and clarifications to the law to avoid hurting energy markets, according to a report by the Abraham Group.
U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Agreement Clears Senate
The Senate on Saturday passed legislation that would give the Interior Department secretary authorization to implement a transboundary agreement between the U.S. and Mexico governing the development of oil and natural gas resources along the two countries’ maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).