China, because they ve shown how difficult offensiv operations are we re getting all of thi without putting a risk to life of a single american soldier whoever says that it s the americans were paying for this war, but that is just not true we pay a bit of money, a lot o that money actually goes to ou arms manufacturers, to emplo americans, and america without a single american life at risk. it s ukrainians who are paying the price of this war. they are the ones who ar defending us that really ought to b acknowledged i want to be fair to th letter it is a well written staff letter that is not well argued in my view, based on the point you just raised along with others but marjorie taylor greene didn t write this thing. it is not something you ca just ridicule every night abou on the face of it. and that is why it can be very persuasive to people who are not just republicans it is why i want to hear you response to it one of the arguments they make is something i ve heard outsid
Washington, D.C. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division (MPD) today announced it has issued a temporary no-action letter extending CFTC Staff Letter No.
The Office of the Chief Accountant of the SEC's Division of Investment Management periodically issues "Dear Chief Financial Officer" letters to help registered investment companies.
Friday, May 14, 2021
On May 11, 2021, the staff of the Division of Investment Management (“IM”) within the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a statement (the “Statement”) regarding the staff’s current views on funds registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) investing in bitcoin futures.
1 Although the Statement most directly illustrates the staff’s current stance toward mutual funds investing in bitcoin futures, more significantly, given the intense interest in potential bitcoin and other cryptocurrency products, the Statement is being scrutinized for what it might say about the willingness of the staff to approve exchange-traded products offering exposure to bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.
Friday, May 7, 2021
CFTC Issues No-Action Response Letter Providing Relief to DCO From Complying With Specified Part 39 Regulatory Requirements
On May 3, the Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) published Staff Letter No. 21-13 (Staff Letter), providing CX Clearinghouse, L.P. (CX) with no-action relief from specified Part 39 regulations applicable to derivatives clearing organizations (DCO).
As a registered DCO, CX is subject to Regulation 39.15(d), which requires a DCO to have rules requiring the DCO to promptly transfer all or a portion of a customer’s portfolio of positions and related funds as necessary from the customer’s carrying clearing member to another clearing member, without requiring the close-out and re-booking of the positions prior to the requested transfer, subject to certain conditions. Because CX rules permit its participants to clear positions only for their respective proprietary accounts on a non