United States

Staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a no-action letter to swap execution facilities (SEFs), through September 30, 2015, if a SEF:  1) incorporates by reference the terms of underlying previously-negotiated agreements between swap counterparties in its confirmation without receiving copies of those agreements by the time the trade is executed; or

On August 19, 2014, Rick A. Fleming, the head of the Office of the Investor Advocate of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), gave a speech at the 38th Annual Southwest Securities Conference, in which he urged Congress to authorize the SEC to collect an annual “user fee” from registered investment advisers that would