Continuing a theme amidst the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) staff letters in 2022, the sixth letter of 2022 reminded market participants to correct errors and give notice to the CFTC’s staff when errors in swap data are discovered and can’t be quickly... Five entities that act like derivatives clearing organizations – ASX Clear (Futures) Pty Limited, Japan Securities Clearing Corporation, Korea Exchange, Inc., OTC Clearing Hong Kong Limited, and Shanghai Clearing House (“Relief DCOs”)– clear trades under exemptive... Financial regulators in Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, and Spain banned short sales of equities for two months in 2020 in response to Covid-19 market turmoil. Staff at the European Securities and Market Authority (ESMA) collected data on how equities... In the Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) staff’s third letter of 2022, the Division of Data gave no-action relief for swap data reporting amendments adopted by the CFTC in November, 2020. Those amendments were accompanied by technical specifications... On January 5, 2022 the Market Participants Division of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued two no-action letters directed towards swap dealers permitting them to prepare annual audited financial statements in accordance with other countries’... 