To meet its statutory mission of ensuring market integrity and customer protection with respect to products listed under self.
Mat products cftc.
Commitments of traders a breakdown of each tuesday s open interest for markets.
7b 3 sefs were created by the addition of section 5h of the act by section 733 of the dodd frank wall street reform and consumer protection act dodd frank act for the trading and processing of swaps.
What is traditionsef s status with the cftc.
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Effective as of january 22 2016 the commodity futures trading commission granted traditionsef registration as a swap execution facility.
Organizations with respect to offering products to u s.
Designated contract markets dcms may list for trading new contracts by filing a self certification with the commission that the new contract complies with the commodity exchange act cea and the commission s regulations or by requesting commission approval.
These trades would have to meet the following criteria in order to be considered mat.
1 standard coupon refers to the then current fixed coupon rates for market agreed coupon mac contracts.
Swap execution facilities sefs are trading facilities that operate under the regulatory oversight of the cftc pursuant to section 5h of the commodity exchange act the act 7 u s c.
Low latency and a proven ability to attract deep high quality liquidity in a wide range of interest rate products for both mat and non mat transactions.
In which 20 or more traders hold positions equal to or above the reporting levels established by the cftc.
Organization filing description products affected official receipt date status date remarks associated documents.
The industry filings search tool provides access to information about and submissions by trading and clearing organizations such as designated contract markets dcms swap execution facilities sefs derivatives clearing organizations dcos swap data repositories sdrs and non u s.
We focus however on the first set of mat certifications for us dollar based trades.
Made available to trade determinations for certain interest rate and credit default swap contracts.
The commodity futures trading commission cftc is expected to pass all made available to trade mat filings for new swap execution facilities sefs but uncertainty around leadership could affect the initial period of mandatory trading on the new platforms.
Last week the cftc certified certain interest rate and credit default swaps in usd eur and gbp currencies to be mat.
