SUMMARY

On September 16, 2014, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a broad-based challenge to the interpretive guidance and policy statement issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) in July 2013 relating to the extraterritorial application of the CFTC’s swaps rules adopted pursuant to Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank” or “Dodd-Frank Act”). The guidance specifically addressed the circumstances under which certain Dodd-Frank requirements, such as the CFTC’s swap reporting rules, mandatory clearing requirement, trade execution requirement, and swap dealer registration and business conduct requirements, would apply … Read more

INTRODUCTION

On June 24, 2014, the House of Representatives voted 265 to 144 to pass H.R. 4413, entitled the “Customer Protection and End-User Relief Act” (the “Reauthorization Act”). The Reauthorization Act reauthorizes the operations of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) through the 2018 fiscal year. In addition to reauthorizing the CFTC, the Reauthorization Act would, if enacted, amend the Commodity Exchange Act (the “CEA”), among other things, to:

• require statutorily the CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to issue joint rules regarding the application of U.S. swaps rules to transactions made between U.S. and foreign entities;
• modify

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